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Sect. Municipal Law. Inserenda.

Obligation.
Moral trampled on – Gaming.

He would not have men game: In this I join
with him. But if they do game and lose, he
would not have them pay. In this I can He calls it a fase
join with him. sense of honour that commands prompts them to it. In this I
can never join with him till all sense of shame
be obliterated banished from my bosom.

there has been a time, when Legislature governed by principles congenial
to his, have taken off the Political Sanction
from the payment of these debts. The consequence
is they have been better paid than others. In this
they offer'd præmiums for business profligacy, and for the
honour of the nation have met with few to
claim them. Is then this ..... disease altogether
without remedy? I hope not: at least
not in those desperate paroxysms of it, which
shatter the whole fortune The to be one prescription there seems yet left that might be worth trying. The present This is not a
place to give it in enter into the detail. The outline of it
is this. Give the power of rescinding the contract
to those who are sufferers by the loss,
without being parties to the obligation. I submit
it with respect and diffidence to those
who observing the inefficacy of the common subsisting expedients
in practise, have discernment (enough) to acknowledge the
futility of them in principle.

A simple declaration of judgment concerning the habit of
contracting these obligations, a declaration of judgement moral censure of the practice – I
say from an assembly so respectable as the Legislature
would have had a much better chance for efficacy.

Sect: Municipal Law. 32 Inserenda

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