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1828 Nov. 19
Law Petition for Justice and Blackstone
☞ Quere whether to insert this? and if yes, whether at
the beginning?
. The course upon meant to be pursued on this
occasion is this: those things which are at the same time
most extensively and most easily intelligible,
so throughout. That
That law in some shape or other is necessary not
merely to the well-being but to the very being of the species in a
social state, you are each of y can not any one of you
my disciples fail to be sufficiently assured. Toward
this end it has can not act without as if
creating and conferring rights: nor to any effectual purpose
confer rights without imposing as you will see correspondent obligations.
Now the rights with which each person has the most immediate
and pressing need to be acquainted are those by
which his own immediate in the most immediate and manifest
way he receives benefit: the obligations with which
he has the most immediate and pressing need to be acquainted
with, in addition to those by which the rights belonging to him
are conferred on him are those by the non fulfilment of
which he being a party subjected to him his suffering
that he would be subjected to would be most immediately
and heavy intense and . Portions in the order of
importance as well as relation had to the interest of the greatest
number in of the members of the community portions in the order of importance
as well as in that of intelligibility, are those rights and
obligations by the establishment of which the machinery of
government is composed: ⊞ and of this machine
the only real use is the
in addition to the securing
the community against
sufferance from a foreign
enemy is the giving
existence, and faculty
of exercise to those rights. antecedently to every thing which
can be is commonly is and with propriety be stiled public
will be explained explanation be given as far as may be every thing which
is or with propriety can be called private.
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