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1 Preface Church
In a work of which the public has already
for some time been in possession I had occasion
to give make mention a sketch of a plan for a compleat system of
legislation. The subject which forms the subject
of the present little treatise forms but a part
The subject of Constitutional
Law formed one of
ten divisions into which
the whole undertaking was
cast is there represented
as being cast appears at first sight to belong exclusively to that
division. But upon a nearer inspection it will
appear to spread through several others of the divisions
in question. Analytical distributions are of use
to assist investigation but ought not to controul it.
Upon a survey of the field of constitutional law
I find it covered in different countries with
fabrics, of different structure in every
one, and which upon examination appear to
agree in little but their general inability and
unfitness for every desirable purpose. In this department
of legislation I find accordingly a
very little to build, do and a vast deal to pull undo
down. The chief business here then to demolish
to show point out what little ought to be done, or rather
may with some apparent advantage be done, and
to show that whatever else has been done, ought
never to have been done and ought to now and
at
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