GOVT2112 Lecture 9: WK 9 J. Bentham
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For several decades between the upsurge of revolution in america and the defeat of the. Napeolonic empire that followed the collapse of the new revolutionary french republic, the. British governing class were terrified that a similar upheaval could happen at home, and they oscillated between accommodation and repression. During the napoleonic wars in particular (1799 1815) there was a generally harsh response for any broadening of political participation. But with the final defeat of france, there was more room for flexibility. Indeed, demands for reform had never entirely gone away. But his experience of trying to get his model prison built (the famous panopticon) convinced him that the political order was also corrupt and that england needed a new constitution. A measure of government dictated by the measure of utility. The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members.