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Sect. Parts of a Law. (19
comprehend what business or what inducement the
legislature can have to meddle with them, ☞ as
thus interpreted: because certainly in general a man knows
better what will please him, and what will please
him, than another man who never saw or know of
him. Still less can I comprehend sorts of actions how
that produce pain nor pleasure can be
made to produce either, just as the legislator municipal
legislator thinks proper. I could instance perhaps indeed
many sorts of actions that by the continuance of the
legislator might may be made and are made to produce an effect
in point if pain or pleasure different from
what they would without his meddling, but how
he should be able to make them do this just
as he sees proper and that with respect to all
actions and those only that of themselves are apt to produce
pain or pleasure in the agent and on name but
him, in what exceed, the capacity to concoure.
"This much", confirms he, "for the declaratory
"part of the municipal law: and the direc—tory
stands much upon the same footing; for
"this virtually included this former, the declaration
being usually collected from the direction. The law
☞ (except possibly on for a very few
purposes, which has
nothing to do with
these our further
instances)
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