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they are, with regard to those collateral
consequences, void. I lay down the rule with these
restrictions; though I know it is generally laid down
more largely, that Acts of Parliament contrary
to reason are void.⊞ ⊞ I hope such language, senseless in itself, mischievous in the use that may be made of it, is not "general" in the mouths of Lawyers. At present I recollect not any instance of it.s long I will not search. Peace But if the Parliament"
continues he "will positive enact a thing to be done which is
"unreasonable, I know of no power that can controul
it: and the examples usually alleged in support
of this sense of the rule do none of them
prove, that where the main object of a Statute
is unreasonable the judges are at liberty to reject
it; for that were to set the judicial power above
the Legislature, which would be subversive of all
government". I am glad we have got thus much
out of our Author: tho' reluctant to condemn separate
himself from his brethren, scarce venturing to speak out, and
half afraid to listen to the plain suggestions &,
his own reason: to conciliate indulgence for his Schism and tho' he drives himself into slinks
a compromise, which involves all the absurdities
of the condemned position tenets he condemns disowns. I think after all upon the whole he has
done enough to make his peace:⊞ when he teaches
them the most probable ingenious method of supporting themselves

Peace be to their manes. When it is not necessary to [the living can at any
other price be put in guard] put [the living] in guard against their errors,
not rake into the ashes of the dead.

Identifier: | JB/028/111/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	111	Info in main headings field	construction
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / b30 / f31 / b32
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9376
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