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SECT. VII. Municipal Law
However this be, since nothing will serve him but
a Law for the standard measure of right and wrong,
the measure of this right which the Law we are speaking of commands and
this wrong which it prohibits must either
be that Law itself or some other Law: if some
other, then whaat we learn of it by this part
of the definition is, that it does nothing what it does in the
but what is done either be it way of commanding and prohibiting is just nothing. Of that Law
itself, then what we are informed of it is
that it prohibits what it prohibits and
commands what it commands.
Upon the whole what we learn are taught concerning
Municipal Law (contradictions apart by this
elaborate definition [of it] is may be summed up as follows, that It is a rule
of a conduct for those who are to observe it, presented
by those who prescribe it, commanding what it commands, and prohi forbidding what
it forbids.
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