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SECT. VIII. Parts of a Law.

A Law is either a proposition or an assemblage
of propositions. If it be a command, it is a
proposition, one or more. If it be a prohibition,
it is still a proposition, one or more.⊞ ⊞ This is no more than what is true of every discourse. And Law is a species of discourse.
A proposition, (I use the word in the sense
that Logicians use it) consists of 3 things.
The two terms the subject and the predicate
and the copula that connects them.

What then can be the parts of a Law?
[of that sort of discourse which is termed a Law?]
either entire propositions or the parts of a
proposition.

Our Author had studied Logic: here was the occasion
if any ever to make a use of it. But Logic
as studied in the Universities, is an instrument
which they pretend pretend to teach how to mount, but
never think of using to teach how to use. It is not
the art of gaining instruction or of communicating
it: but it is the art of disputing as nobody
ever disputes.† † else does.

The In the above way the might a Law might a man might
have proceeded in dividing a Law into its
parts: the following is the way in which he our Author
has proceeded.

The parts says he he tells us that are in a Law, are
4 four: The declaratory, the Directory: the Remedial

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