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1830 July 31
Civil CodeCh. 1. Consideranda
§ Rationale – its use. Why not universally agreable acceptable

As In the in to the breasts case of the indolent under every form
of government, matter ratiocinative matter is a natural
object of aversion, so under a bad government, in the
breasts of the ruling few. It is a chain – a perpetual
chain upon absolutism – upon despotism.

The despot – be he a monster one-headed or many-headed
– monocephalous or polycephalous, finds the field
of legislation (suppose) covered with good laws,⊞ ⊞ with an adequate quantity of appropriate ratiocinative matter attached to each parcel, to serve as a steadiment to it. Of the
whole body, scarce any part can he find that will be
subservient – that will be otherwise than obstructive to
his views.

First as to maleficent abrogation. Looking around him, he takes in hand this or that
portion which presents itself as most obnoxious to him, and
threatening least molestation to him in the event of its being
abrogated.

What can he do? There are the reasons on which
he finds it grounded: there are those reasons which, on his
taking the knife in hand hand to cut off the part, rise in judgement
and testify against him. To give but one reason, or to
give none – this is the alternative which he sees before his eyes,
this the alternative and the only one. Bad ones in proportion
as they are bad, expose him to and shame: abrogation
without reasons, is a confession tacit evidence indeed, but not the
less conclusive of his consciousness of the goodness of the law
which he seeks to destroy, and the badness of the hand of the
would-be destroyer of it.

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Date_1	1830-07-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	029	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	062	Info in main headings field	civil code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	9505
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