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1823. May 3
Constitut. Code

A slave is one for the conduct of whose affairs an
in the choice of whom he has no part is employed. And what is
the consequence? Let the of slaves, let the state of
is the governments in which it is established declare.

That which a Slave-holding Planter is in an
American Colony with relation to those whom he calls his slaves, an absolute
Monarch is in relation to those whom he calls his subjects.
The In the one case as in the other, in the exercise given to
the power, more or less of harshness or of mildness may
be manifested practised habitually or casually or habitually by different masters in different countries
or in the same country. But in bulk the two cases the chain
is in both cases the same. If in the chain there be a difference – it is
in the difference of the slaves of the Monarch. For in the case
of the slaves who are stiled slaves, there is almost universally
something or other in the state of the law rule of action by which their per
a restraint is imposed upon the mouths faculty of putting the his slaves
to death, whereas in the case of the Master whose slaves are
stiled not slaves but subjects there is no such restraint:
putting them to death in case of displeasure is not only practised
but professed. avowed.

Identifier: | JB/037/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	20-22
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11350
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