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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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