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SECT. VI. Municipal Law

be a Law it must be manifested to somebody of those it concerns, to be a
Law it must be manifested to every one – manifested
it must be, made known, it must be – known it
must be. Now then, what is that Law which is
known to every one? I doubt we may look a
long time ere we find it. I doubt that what we are
obliged to him for in this paragraph is the having made
out that we have no such thing in the nation as
a Law. Having been so bountiful After his bounty to us in giving
us Laws that we have not, he may be the better
excused for taking away from us that we have.
Tis the misfortune of with our Author, in the few instances
where he aims at a right mark, to overshoot it.
This is what he has done here. Notification of a Law certainly
is requisite to something, thus far he is right. But
requisite to what? not to its being a Law,
but to its producing the good effects of one. The more
of those whom it concerns, it is made known – the more
will it produce of those good effects which the observance of it is
calculated to produce. it will produce.

Notification then he is positive it must have: but

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