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1822 July 7

Constitut. Code Rationale

Factitious honor

?.4. Evils produced by it.

4 When Monarchy was specially on the carpet In bringing to view /In the account given/ the several external instruments of felicity in their eventual character of instruments of corruptive influence, this one was exhibited /had its place/ among the rest. Evil 4. Say Evil by contribution to the corruption fund - to the stock of the matter of corruptive influence

Considered in comparison with the other articles it will be found to stand upon a very different footing from both of them. Power is necessary it is necessary to the very existence of government: it is the very matter of which /the means of/ government is /are/ made. Excluded it can not be: the utmost that can be done is to limit it

So again money - money at the disposal of government. Without it government in a political community of any considerable extent could not be carried on. To exclude it altogether is impossible. To exclude the difference between what is necessary and what is not necessary - and to take care that that which is necessary shall according to its destination be applied to the service of government and to no other purpose - this is all that can /the utmost of what can/ be done.

5. On the same occasion, it has been seen how by the possession and eventual expectation of these the external instruments of felicity contribute as such to the general debasement of the moral part of mans frame in private life as well as in public. Of /Among/ those same objects of general desire this is not less true of the one than of either of the other two abovementioned. Evil 5. Evil by demoralizing influence: so say Evil of sinister self-sufficiency or Evil of sinister independence. by independence on good behaviour

In both ways /parts of the field of action/ in the character of instruments of corruption they act /operate/ in two distinguishable ways: viz. 1 being /when/ in possession by operating as a sort of bond of union and common attachment to the whole system of which they constitute /form/ a part: 2. when in expectation by operating as inducements to [...?] men to betray their trust for /to/ the purpose /effect/ of obtaining at the hands of the arch-corrupter the /an/ instrument of felicity in this shape