Codification proposal, addressed by Jeremy Bentham to all nations professing liberal opinions : or, Idea of a proposed all-comprehensive body of law, with an accompaniment of reasons, applying all along to the several proposed arrangements : these reasons being expressive of the considerations, by which the several arrangements have been presented, as being, in a higher degree than any other, conducive to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, of the individuals of whom the community in question is composed : including observations respecting the hands, by which the original draught, of a work of the sort in question, may, with most advantage, be composed : also, intimation, from the author, to the competent authorities in the several nations and political states, expressive of his desire and readiness to draw up, for their use respectively, the original draught of a body of law, such as above proposed.