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SECT. II
Parts of a Law
What sort of a thing he would make of murder, human Laws
which constititue the offence of it being out of
the way questionquestion, and how it is that it can be constituted by those inspection laws of themselves alone, is a demand I have made on
a former occasion. I might make the same of
Perjury.
"For that (the human)Legislation in all these cases acts
only, as was before observed, in subordination
to the great lawgiver (in other cases the how does
it act? as his co-ordinate or supervisor?
transcribing and publishing his precepts, these
precepts which from the beginning among all terms are [...] were
presented and dictated by God himself inasmuch as to beand inevitably conformed to: that legislation of whose precepts the one half is not so much as written, and of
the half that is, not a great part not made known if that be meant by published
to the tenth part of those that are today them.
So that upon the whole concludes the paragraph
the declaratory part of the Municipal
Law has no form or operation at all
with regard to actions that are robustly and
understandably wrong. If this be being the case what's
the use of it? how come we were to hear
of it? and why is it a part in "every" +Law>p.53
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