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Parts of a Law Interpretation Inserenda
My creed, I [will] give it with all sincerity simplicity, is
this. Conscience binds us to the observance of
every Law of our country's Laws, of which we have not
a thorough and reflective conviction it ha if not of the mischievousness,
at least of the inability. To give it
a more explicit term, if there be a being who
having created the world those rational ones we see, wills their
happiness
and makes their conformity to that conduct the
measure of his judgements: that being for the furtherance
of those ends will punish, except in
the case before excepted, the every willful transgression
of that Law.
I will here give a short Catalogue such as occurrs to me at present of the words that
men of Law have poisoned. It might easily
be made larger, but to compleat it, would be
of unspeakable use. It would do as much as anything could do to restore that
confidence in the Law which the suspicion knowledge
of such manoeuvres in general and the suspicion
of them in each case in particular has
but too quickly banished from the world breasts of many.
in understanding But to compleat it would take a work on purpose:
to excite its a man must have trodden over
where the whole vestry of the Law no less than the whole vast field of Law. For To have
read searched over the four and twenty Volumes Folio of the abridgement
of a part of it would not hardly serve him.
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