A Fragment on Government

Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange. Edited by F. C. Montague (1891)
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This volume makes available one of the central texts in the development of utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected Works. Certain that history was on his side, Bentham sought to rid the world of the hideous mess wrought by legal obfuscation and confusion, and to transform politics into a rational, scientific activity, premised on the fundamental axiom that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.".

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1931, 1977, 1980, 1988, 2001

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K334.B444 2001

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9781584771661   1110279000   0526287012   1584771666   1376073536   0353010979   131354860X   0342974068   1171962479   1436519047   135967005X   1176167618   0343866072   1164021710   1294890662   0342974076   0341910228   1016042604   1375581112   0521350549   0313223238   1016046987   1616407751   1330683943

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10.1086/205081
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