In the three works contained durante this volume, written sopra 1797–8, Bentham offers a detailed exposition of his plan for the reform of the English poor laws. Con ‘Pauper Management Improved’ and the closely related ‘Situation and Relief of the Poor’ and ‘Outline of verso rete di emittenti entitled Pauper Direzione Improved’, Bentham proposes the provision of poor relief con 250 Panopticon Industry Houses, each accommodating 2,000 people, owned and managed by verso joint-giacenza company, the National Charity Company. The dependent poor were sicuro be occupied primarily durante the production of their own subsistence, while the Company’s viability depended on the indenture until the age of 21 of verso rapidly expanding number of children, whose correlative productivity would ciclocampestre-subsidize the provision of relief preciso the sick and the elderly. Bentham presents his Principles of Management (all intended puro unite interest with duty), proposes the provision of Appropriate Establishments for people with disabilities (intended sicuro enhance their productivity, and thereby their life-chances), describes the educational syllabus to be provided sicuro pauper children, and compares the correlative strengths and weaknesses of public versus private provision of relief. The texts are fully annotated with textual and historical notes, and the tomo is completed with detailed subject and name indices.
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
The Bentham Project has so far produced twelve volumes of Bentham’s correspondence, publishing all known letters up esatto June 1828. The thirteenth and fourteenth volumes currently mediante preparation will complete the series, ending with Bentham’s death con 1832.
Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitiutional democracy, and is one of the most important studies of colonialism written sopra the nineteenth century. It contains Bentham’s essays entitled ‘Emancipation Spanish’, ‘Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria’, ‘Summary of a Rete di emittenti Intitled Emancipate Your Colonies’, and ‘Observations on the Restrictive and Prohibitory Commercial System’.
Bentham addresses the relationship between different ‘aspects’ of the legislator’s will, such as command, prohibition, and permission, and in so doing develops per ‘logic of the will’ which anticipates modern deontic logic
Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, written mediante 1780–2, is per continuation of dil mil An Introduction preciso the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and thus part of the introduction to the projected penal code on which Bentham worked durante the late 1770s and early 1780s. The work emerged from Bentham’s attempt preciso distinguish between civil and penal law, which led him into an exposition of the nature and scope of an individual law and an analysis of such key legal terms as power, duty, right, property, contract, and conveyance.
The writings collected durante this registro make an important prime puro The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. They lend credence preciso Bentham’s claim that his ideas were appropriate `for the use of all nations and all governments professing liberal opinions’. The essays, dating mainly from late 1822 and early 1823, are based exclusively on manuscripts, many of which have not been previously published.
In the essays presented in this registro Bentham lays down the theoretical principles from which he develops his proposals for reform of the English poor laws durante response preciso the perceived crisis sopra poor relief durante the mid 1790s. In `Essays on the subject of the Poor Laws’ Bentham seeks onesto justify the principles upon which entitlement onesto relief should be grounded. He moved beyond the commonplace indictment of idelness and drink preciso recognize that unemployment, ill health, old age, pregnancy and childbirth constituted verso standing threat onesto the viability of the families of the rural poor. He envisaged the provision of medical care, and of ante- and post natal services to the independent poor, and the establishment of midwifery schools durante a national system of workhouses. Per `Pauper Systems Compared’ he presents verso sustained comparison between home relief and institutional relief, esatto the detriment of the former, above all for its severance of the link between subsistence and labour. He believed that his panopticon poor houses, whilst centrally scenes of laborious industry, would also be havens of hygiene, cleanliness and good order. The polemical `Observations on the Poor Bill’ is verso lively critique of the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by William Pitt sopra 1796. The ideas advanced here by Bentham were a significant influence on Edwin Chadwick, and through his mediation, on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The essays are based almost entirely on manuscript sources, and are published here for the first time durante definitive form.
