JB/037/042/001

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1821. April 28.
First Lines Constitutional
Distributive
(2.)

Political offences — State Offences — Offences against Government —
are the denominations by which acts bearing
this character are, in these days, commonly designated; lese Majesty
divine and human is of the number of the denominations
by which, in former days, days of yore offences of this same description
were by the wisdom of the ancestors of those who numbered ancestry
among their professions, denominated and distinguished. In
Under a Monarchy absol Of lese Majesty a division was made
but with little difference, between its the parts — between that which was
human and that which was divine: lese Majesty human, an
offence against the power, crown, dignity and majesty of that but
too visible God, whose throne was upon earth: lese majesty divine,
an offence against the power, crown, dignity and majesty
of the invisible God whose throne is in heaven, and whose
likeness may be seen at all times in any one of those earthly
thrones filled at present by the Frederick's, the Ferdinands, the
Alexanders, and the George's.

Under a Monarchy, offences of this class, together with
the pile of securities raised for defence against them, throws the
whole group of offences really mischievous as it were into
the shade.

In The persons of authors, printers publishers,
circulators, readers, lenders, borrowers, hirers, readers, hearers, —
if not denunciators, of libellous discourses, — utterers and hearers
if not denunciators of seditious discourses uttered in the way of
oral converse, all discourses either actually displeasing to the God upon Monarch
Earth, or any of his chosen servants, or presumably displeasing to that
likeness of his which is in heaven have long ago always been extirpated punished by
halter

halter, ball or or imprisonment bayonet
but that it is from the
labour of subjects that
power, crown, throne,
dignity, might majesty
and dominion of Monarchs
are derived
from the labour of
subjects, and that to
labour men must live.

Identifier: | JB/037/042/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1821-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11257
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