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of disappointments, which the most perfect
system of promulgation would be insufficient ⊞ ⊞ applied to the simplest and best compacted body of laws would be scarce sufficient
to prevent. Some laws can possess a sort of
natural notoriety: such are those which had
justified are indicated by an obvious utility, or
flow naturally from one some other simple principle.⊞ ⊞ Such would be the laws of succession if comprised as they might be in about one a dozen sentences. Others
have labour under a sort of natural incapacity of powers by being finding their
Reason. way into the memory. Laws the these of this stamp overlapped
The laws above referred to reserve continue keeping in
continued obscurity in a state of natural darkness till called
forth by its occasion to the astonishment and vain dismay
of individuals ⊞ ⊞ they exhibit punishment without delinquency, and have the effect of confiscation in every thing but the utility and the name. Such laws would have be the object
of universal abhorrence be the to are been long ago cast out with merited abhorrence, if a species of
approved of their existence were if it not for that
bigotry which English lawyers above all others
are so sure prone to imbibe and so assiduous to
propagate inculcate did not render men insensible deaf to
the voice of reason and to the very cries of
nature.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	044	Info in main headings field	appropriation supply
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l munn
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3345
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