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SECT. Parts of a Law.
rewards: for Laws there are that have rewards
for their sanction, tho' "the most part" (so "Legislators
have chosen" to make it it should be) have the other
sort of sanction that "consists in punishments".
And yet there is no Law but "may be said to
consist of" this "sanctional or vindicatory" part
which "whereby is signified what evil or penalty
shall be incurred", as well as of the other
three parts. But of this more of this presently.
Under the head of each of these parts, some
observations are subjoined, and 1st concerning
the Declaratory part.
"This", we are told in the first place, "depends
"not so much upon the Law of Revelation or
"of nature, as upon the wisdom and will of
"the Legislature". The purport of this smooth
distinction I must profess myself unable to
comprehend. Of the Law of Revelation I know not what part he would have
the Law municipal Law to depend on, nor
in what sense he would have that part whatever
it is depended on. Of the Law of Nature as I have often said I
know nothing, since it is a non-entity. But
be the first what it will, and the second something
and that something what it will, and let the declaratory part (if there is such a thing) of the
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