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§§4 Causes of Misrule.

1
Misrule its roots
1 — in the will.
2 — in the understanding
3. in the active facility
corporeal & mental.

2
Root in will, cause, operation
of sinister interest

3
Root in understanding
cause — ignorance or
error.

4
Causes of Error
1. False facts
2. False arguments

5
Root in the active facts
by cause, want of appropriate
active talent.

6
Hence causes of misrule
5:
1. Sinister interest
2. Ignorance
3. Error from false facts
4. Error from false
arguments.
5. Want of appropriate
active talent.

Liberty of the press is in
all these cases an indispensable
in some
the only remedy.


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§§.5. Sinister interest
explained.

1
To every public, as well
as every man two interests
a public and a private.

Synonymous to private
separate: and as adverse
to public sinister.

3
Of Sinister interest the
force is as the number
of persons connected with
the public man in question
by the ties of sympathy

4
Monarch acts under the
influence of his own separate
interest: each
dependant of his under
the influence of his own
and the Monarch's.

5
Monarchy absolute, Monarch's
sinister interest
finds no other to counteract
it, a servant's of his
none but the Monarch's
— it is only in a popular
Government that
Sinister interest finds an
adequate check.


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§§.6. Liberty of the press
a remedy against Sinister
interest.

1.
Legislators act 1. Minimizing
sinister interest
2. Causing it to find
checks.

2
But the legislator either
being himself the ruler or
acting under his direction
hence the great improbability
of remedy against
the operation of sinister
interest under any government
in which the people
have no share

3
In any non-popular constitution
no such remedy
can have been applied but
under the spur of necessity
produced by apprehension
of popular displeasure.

4
If then to sinister interest
a sufficient check has in
the constitution been applied
so much the better.

But if in the way there
be any deficiency it is only
by the liberty of the press
viz. as against rulers
that it can be made known
as the necessary course
taken for applying it

5
Here then is one use of the
liberty of the press viz serving
as a remedy against
sinister interest in the
of rulers.

By this liberty alone can be
pointed out
1. Existence of misrule
2 Existence of its cause,
sinister interest
3 Persons on whom it operates
4 Shape in which it operates
5 Effects produced by it.
6 Arrangement best adapted
to the remedying it.

6
So far as the case of the press
consists in furnishing information
as to any of the above
points, the remedy against
misrule applies itself to
the understanding of the
people [and belongs to a
succeeding head]

7.
But through the medium of
their understanding it operates
upon their will establishing
communication between
will and will and
disposing the wills of in opposing
eventual misrule


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§§.7. ignorance

1
2. Remedy to ignorance
[instruction] information
which is as the number
of admitted instruction

2
Without the press information
little. Here one
use of the liberty of the
press.
Use 1 See §§IV.5 §§XIV

3
In other arts, information
is even by ruling powers
forced
by encouragement in
all sorts of shapes

4
In the act of government
it ought at least to be admitted
from whatever
quarter presented.

5
Cause of non admission
sinister interest of rulers
who have admitted such
alone as promised to be
conducive to their own interest
viz. separate; and
common, so far as not
prejudicial to separate.

6
[Pretence for this meaning
ignorance, keeping
out error forgetting or
making as if they forget
that in letting in error
liberty lets in corrections]

7
True cause sinister
interest:
with information
comes opposition:
conjunct opposition, by
which efficient power
is lessened and sinister
interest thwarted
:



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1-6, 1-5, 1-7, 1-7

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026

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law amendment

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011

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