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Inserenda Comm. law (39 Gaming

The For declaration of judgment alone, if any thing not of will
that can govern judgment. Men might possibly
do that as Censors which they certainly
can not as Legislators. Men may sometimes
do that by the opinion authority of their wisdom, which
they can not by the management of their power[+].
All that the policy of was made upon expedients against
obnoxious contracts comes to, is to allow the
breach of them. But an the idea of allowance excludes is
that of coercion. An allowance is vain, which
men are forbidden[+] on pain of ignominy to
accept. The operation is vain when the same
hand that dissolves one tie, cements a stronger

[+] All they have attempted
to do with by their
power here, is to withdraw
it.

[+] and that by a Law much
more of execution than
any political one

NOTE Nash

thus a King of ruled over a willing
people. Every one remembers the King of Bath. The example instance is may raise a smile because in comparison
low. But the lesson is instructive.

In the business of leading opinion, they Legislatures might
do more perhaps by a private association
than by a public act. In A Public act their conduct would
be more thought of as political; in a private
association it would be more regarded as sincere
In this behalf They might do more as men of wisdom, than of
Power, and more as men of Fashion, than as
either.

Inserenda

Common law. 39

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