JB/037/330/001

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1823 June 14

[ ] [No limits]

Question. Why to the competence and power of the Legislative
body are no precise limits here undertaken to be set.

Answer. Reasons.

1. Because either such limits the case of a contract excepted on every each occasion any such limits
will be either needless and on that account pernicious, or pernicious – productive of a net
amount on the side of evil.

1. The A case in which any such limitation will be needless
is that every case in which without the conduct were no such limitation
insisted in the Code the conduct of the legislature were will
without the insistence of any such limitation insisted in the
Code the conduct of the Legislature will be the same as that
which by such insertion endeavour would be made to produce secure.

In this case the insertion in question besides being needless
will be pernicious. For in proportion as the unreasonableness and
absurdity of the any such endeavour is manifest, the
opinion entertained of the everywhere respecting the aptitude of the composition
and the appropriate aptitude of its authors will be
unfavorable: and its influence proportion and the strength of mens
attachment to it proportionably diminished. For the consideration
by which the absurdity of any such endeavour is brought to view
see the part of this date.

Identifier: | JB/037/330/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-06-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	330	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11545
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