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Luck then are is the true real uses use and the only uses
of this institution in the country which gave it birth:
an indispensable but feeble remedy against a
complication of diseases none of which exist, or
can now ever exist in France: [one only excepted
which capital punishment to which a radical cure
may be applied with a thousand times the ease
of this feeble palliative.] Pursuing with closed
eyes this scent of antient prejudice, the French
nation or at least the governing part of it are
bent upon the this bad rotten remedy, richly provided with sound
and proper ones, and not troubled with disease
nor under any possibility of being troubled, with
the disease.
You pass good laws — You establish, a
you already have established a constitution which
sufficient will endure your never having to insure you
against the possibility of your ever having
laws so bad as to leave room to wish for them
being rendered ineffectual by any principle in judicature;
and you establish crown them with a principle in
judicature the only use of which depends upon its power
of turning the laws into waste paper.
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