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2 Feby 1813
Church

II Topics
Ch. 11. D
§.1.
Part II. Dignity with power

2

§.1. Abstract fitness
Part II. Dignity with power.

1
In the infancy of
society, the difficulty
was to create, in the
early stages to preserve
governments.
p.1

2.
Now the difficulty
consists in keeping it
within it's proper bounds.
p.1

3
In an absolute monarchy,
such restriction
is hopeless: under
the British constitution
the continuance
of it becomes every
day less precarious.
p.1

4
These observations if
just, may serve as a
key to the questions
concerning the utility
of dignity as an appendage
to power. p.1.

5
Often said that power
depends on respect.
This true in a certain
sense, but not to the
purpose here. p.2.

6
E contrá power has
need of at bridle which
cannot be too strong
and which in practice
has never been
found strong enought
to prevent it from
straying into the
path of misrule.
This bridle can only
be constituted of the
religious and moral
sanctions. p.2

7.
Of the religious sanction,
the force depends
on the text of the scripture,
and the application
of it by the
teachers — p.2

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part II. Dignity with power.

8
To this purpose the
sacred text has nothing.
Under the
fixt forms of Church
of Englandism, such
application as has been
made has been to spur
on monarchical
power. p.2.

9
Remains the popular
sanction, for
tho' the higher powers
keep the lower ones in
order, there is no political
check on the
supreme power under
the British Constitution.
— Though such
check may exist
Americé where the
representatives of the
people are elected by
them; in Britain
where representation
is a fiction as
a cloak for misrule,
the popular sanction
is the only bridle to
the political one. p.3.

10
This sanction can only
operate 1 negatively
by witholding demonstrations
of respect
— 2 positively by giving
demonstrations of
the contrary p.3.

11.
But not only in so
far as combined with
power, but as being
factitious, the effect
of dignity is, to weaken
the popular sanction
by securing a given
and uniform quantity
of respect. This
respect is all created
at the expense of the
moral sanction,
because men are in
a manner forced to
yield that which
otherwise they would
yield or no, as they
conceived it conducive
to the good of the
community. p.4.

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