JB/036/110/002

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1821. Nov. 26. Codification Offer.

1.8 Foreigners Best

For example of the differences, look here likewise
to the situation of Military Commander. On first point, suppose
a certain degree of inaptitude — such as seems to have
been not unfrequently manifested, every thing goes to ruin:
ruin, which, in their case, is very apt to be beyond recovery.

Look to the situation of Finance Minister. Suppose
here a correspondent degree of inaptitude, every thing
though not absolutely on in the gulph of ruin, may without
difficulty be on the road to it. In this case, however, means
for the stoppage of evil not being ever so compleatly wanting
as they may often be in the case of the Military Commander,
ruin not being so prompt, never can be so compleat
as it sometimes is in that. Still, however, the case formed
a contrast sufficiently manifest with that of the legislative
draughtsman, and in particular when applying his faculties
to the particular sort of work in question. This, it is true,
supposed the absence of all such exclusive privileges as puts
a negative upon the labours of other works in the same
line. For in that case the mischief of an improper choice
might be so great, and to be equal to the whole difference
between the aptitude of the body of the law, taken in the state
in which the function of drawing into a new and was committed
to the foreigner's hand, and that of the most apt body
of law which, supposing him out of the way, would have
been drawn up by another hand. But in any such exclusive
preference would be involved an absurdity, a further
exposure of which may be seen in the next succeeding section.

One good effect for the production of which the
choice of a foreigners in the case in question bids fairer than
the choice of a motive, remains yet to be brought to view.
This is the superior probability, with which, for a body of
law framed in its original state by a hand thus circumstanced,
a hope may be entertained of its receiving adoption
at the hands of other nations. Supposing any such acceptance
given, the consequence is, over and above whatever good
may come to be produced by it in each nation taken singly,
the benefit that can not but be produced by it in the character

Identifier: | JB/036/110/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-06-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	19-20
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a9 / b2 / d9 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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