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1822 July 17
Constitut. Code

If their own law were a proper one all Borough-manager ought to be hanged:
By them obtaining money by personation is punished with death.

§. Fiction – an instrument of Misrule in the hands of limited
Monarchy – its relation to Corruption and Delusion.
Incorporeal instrument of misrule

Shall Fiction be added to the list? With respect to the four
others it is altogether disparate: for it is not produced by the
same efficient causes – by money power and factitious honor.
Though not the ruler of a certain.
It is however in use since the offspring of that evil offspring genius.
Fiction have have actually been made to regard as
an instrument apt and necessary to good government in general
and to good judicature in particular.

So mischievous an error where shall the efficient cause
of its prevalence be found? Answer in delusion. Delusion confused the The same
causes that delusion has been produced has thereupon has this
preeminently mischievous error been produced.
By delusion men have been by the several efficient causes of
delusive influence above mentioned men have been led to regard
as their most natural and good last friend their most implacable natural worst protectors
guardians their most implacable and irresistible enemies
namely Kings and Judges and Advocates placed over them by Kings.
To give For giving effect to the system of depredation and oppression
concealed between the arch depredator and those his
instruments, they have woven a lesson of falshood,
a mass dose of poison in the shape of falshood and with the
name of future which by the stupid ignorant patience
of the people they have been suffered to inject into every
vein of the body politic and thus added this source
of corruption to the other.


Identifier: | JB/036/166/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.

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1822-07-17

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036

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constitutional code

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166

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constitut. code

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001

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text sheet

Number of Pages

1

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recto

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e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Paper Producer

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Notes public

ID Number

11090

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