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4. The political, or legal sanction. It has two branches, the Judicial &
the Administrative. The judicial acting almost exclusively by punishments,
the administrative mostly by rewards. This sanction becomes Law –
& is called into operation upon all those acts which Legislation
makes penal – or those which are deemed worthy of Legislation
reward deems worthy of public recompense. In other words the political
sanction belongs to those vices which being deemed misdemeanors
or crimes to be are taken cognizance of by the official authorities as meet subjects for penal visitation – or
to those virtues which are marked out for state reward. It is
the Legislator, & not rather than the Moralist who employs is armed with
the political sanction – but it was necessary to mention it
as an instrument one of the sources of action.
Scandal.
Scandal is to the Moral Sanction what perjury is to the political. p.227.
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