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suggest more readily and more distinctly the question
whether the law shall remain in its present state, or undergo
a change.

To this end, instead of the ordinary Practical Arrangement,
I have adopted an Analytical one, by which the Subject
is Separated into its Component Parts. It is familiar,
that in considering whether a given head of criminal
law stands in need of revision, eight several questions
arise:—

1. What are those Objects (persons or things) which
ought to be protected from the perpetration of the crime in
question; and is the present list too comprehensive or too
limited?

2. Is it proper to denounce an Act (or omission) as
criminal, only when it proceeds from a particular Motive;
and is the existing law in unison with the principle which
the answer to this question affords?

3. What Acts (or omissions) is it proper to denounce as
criminal; and is the existing law unison with the principle
which the answer to this question affords?

4. It being agreed, that it is proper to denounce an act
(or omission) as criminal, only when it proceeds from a particular
intention, is it proper to require that the Intention
be accomplished; and is the existing law in unison with
the principle which the answer to this question affords?

5. It being agreed, that it is proper to denounce an act (or
omission) as criminal, shall it be classed as Treason, Felony,
or Misdemeanor; and is the existing law in unison with the
principle which the answer to this question affords?

Identifier: | JB/011/200/010 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	200	Info in main headings field
Image	010	Titles	a letter to the members of the different circuits
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	23
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3897
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