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1822 July 21

Constitut Code Rationale

Public Opinion Tribunal

Aristocratical faction

Where interests do not clash, it is as if there were no such faction: the democratic interest determines the case without opposition

What remains to be shewn is - that the interest of this small number is in a state of constant opposition to that of the great number. If this be shewn much is shewn: For it is thereby shewn that the greatest happiness principle requires that on every occasion it should be prevented from being prevalent. More than this needs not to be shewn nor is ever shewn to justify whatsoever resistance is necessarily made also to foreign adversaries as to that class of domestic adversaries who are lumped together under the common appellation /stigmatized /designated/ by the common appellation/ of malefactors.