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?.8. Corruptive influence.

This being admitted If, in the character of an all-embracing principle, this be admitted, note well the consequences.

1 If needless war be a mischief - 2 if exercise of dominion over distant and burthensome dependencies if an exercise of dominion producing net encrease of taxes be a mischief - 3. if hatred well-grounded hatred towards the country in question in the breasts of the subjects and governments of all other nations /countries/ upon earth be a mischief 4. if factitious delay, vexation and expence, having encrease of lawyers profit for its effect and object be a mischief if denial of justice to all the individuals in the community but /with the exception/ a few distinguished by their opulence and thence the systematic oppression of all but those few /nine-tenths of the people of the country/ be a mischief - 5. lastly if the maintenance of a constitution of a form of government having for its effect for its undeniable effect misrule in all these as well as so many other shapes be a mischief, then are the members of the government for the time being - namely in the first place of the executive branch of the government in the next place of the legislative branch guilty of all these mischiefs respectively: then are they - though not in a positive sense, in a negative sense, suborners of all the several misdeeds by which these several mischiefs are produced. Then are they in a moral sense guilty of all these mischiefs by a species of misdeed which bears the same relation to the corresponding positive misdeed as misprision does to treason itself.

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?.8. Corruptive influence

Corruption without Corrupter

S. Anglice , Rulers implacable enemies.

In relation to this system of misrule, far however are they from taking /maintaining/ no other than this negative and quiescent part.

Many /Various/ and continually recurring are the occasions on which their utmost activity is employed in the support of a state of things so pernicious to the universal interest so beneficial to the comparatively private and thence sinister interest of themselves their associates in power and confederates.

1. In the first place in the head and front of their offending is the support they give to a political idol of their own manufacture, for whom by a system of the most barefaced /flagrant/ yet hitherto unhappily not sufficiently detected fraud and imposture, they set up in the character of a God upon earth, possessing in a prodigiously preeminent degree all moral worth and in that field superior by a vast height to all men whose station is lower in the scale of power and wealth, knowing /sensible/ as they can not any of them avoid knowing that, by the causes which are so compleatly open to their view, he can not but have been rendered inferior in that scale to the generality of men.

2. In the next place comes the system of coercive measures and arrangements to which they are incessantly and upon every the most trifling and shallow pretence making additions - the measures having for their object the obtaining a remedy against /relief from/ the immense mass carefully imposed and cherished of human suffering or any considerable part of it.

Here enumerate the liberticide measures