Durante the three works contained mediante this elenco, written mediante 1797–8, Bentham offers a detailed exposition of his plan for the reform of the English poor laws. Durante ‘Pauper Direzione Improved’ and the closely related ‘Situation and Relief of the Poor’ and ‘Outline of verso rete informatica entitled Pauper Management Improved’, Bentham proposes the provision of poor relief durante 250 Panopticon Industry Houses, each accommodating 2,000 people, owned and managed by verso joint-stock company, the National Charity Company. The dependent poor were preciso be occupied primarily in the production of their own subsistence, while the Company’s viability depended on the indenture until the age of 21 of a rapidly expanding number of children, whose divisee productivity would cross-subsidize the provision of relief sicuro the sick and the elderly. Bentham presents his Principles of Management (all intended esatto unite interest with duty), proposes the provision of Appropriate Establishments for people with disabilities (intended preciso enhance their productivity, and thereby their life-chances), describes the educational syllabus esatto be provided preciso pauper children, and compares the incomplete 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 onesto June 1828. The thirteenth and fourteenth volumes currently in 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 per the nineteenth century. It contains Bentham’s essays entitled ‘Emancipation Spanish’, ‘Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria’, ‘Summary of a Work 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 durante so doing develops a ‘logic of the will’ which anticipates modern deontic logic

Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, written per ciò che è oasis dating 1780–2, is per continuation of An Introduction esatto the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and thus part of the introduction puro the projected penal code on which Bentham worked sopra the late 1770s and early 1780s. The work emerged from Bentham’s attempt esatto 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 elenco make an important addenda puro The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. They lend credence sicuro 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.

Con the essays presented per this registro Bentham lays down the theoretical principles from which he develops his proposals for reform of the English poor laws con response puro the perceived crisis sopra poor relief sopra the mid 1790s. Sopra `Essays on the subject of the Poor Laws’ Bentham seeks puro justify the principles upon which entitlement onesto relief should be grounded. He moved beyond the commonplace indictment of idelness and festicciola onesto 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 onesto the independent poor, and the establishment of midwifery schools in a national system of workhouses. Mediante `Pauper Systems Compared’ he presents per sustained comparison between home relief and institutional relief, to 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 per lively critique of the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by William Pitt durante 1796. The ideas advanced here by Bentham were verso 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 in definitive form.