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1810 Aug. 8
Carraccas. Necessity of an all-comprehensive Code.

I. Necessity of an entire new body of law for Venezuela

The expediency of providing an ent a new
and compleat body of law for Venezuela –the necessity –
in so far as one object a task so difficult can be pronounced
necessary is a matter too evident to need dwelling upon.
A body of laws which had no other determinate object
but the keeping in subjection the lesser labour of a country
situated at an immense distance, governors and governed
compleatly unknown to each other, can never in
any tolerable degree be suitable to the condition of a
the same people after they have become free to take
their own welfare for the object of their own endeavours.
In substance and matter bad even in relation to the
exigencies of the country Spain which given it birth, the
I applied to the exigencies of America, the Spanish
body of laws can not but be still worst. In point of
form, shapeless and confined, deficient redundant and deficient
at the same time, composed at a time even
the most rural parts of it at times unless or to any
in which the may the most superficial consisted into the of legislation
had begun to manifest itself, no intelligent Spaniard
could take it in hand without seeing abundant reason
for wishing to see it even in Spain and for
the use of Spain by an entire new body of law conformable
dictated by a degree of intelligence conformi corresponding
in some degree to that which at present manifests
itself in every other walk of science.
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Identifier: | JB/012/001/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1810-08-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field	carraccas necessity of an all-comprehensive code
Image	001	Titles	i necessity of an entire new body of law for venezuela
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4062
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