In the case of the unification of two or more previously sovereign states, Bentham is sensitive to the problem of providing assurances to the smaller states that the larger ones will not dominate them. Given what he takes to be the impossibility of tying future generations’ hands, he places his trust in the belief that sooner or later, after having been under one government, “the two communities will have become melted into one.”
在联合两个和多个从前的主权国家的例子中，边沁对一个问题十分敏感：向较小的国家提供较大的国家不会主宰它们的保障。他认为束缚子孙后代的双手是不可能的，因此在一个政府的统治下，迟早“两个社会会融合成一个。”