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1820 June 28. 1822 Aug. 4
Constitut. Code

§ Corruptive influence
Co-Corruptors

149 57 or 6.
War, in so far as not
necessary to self defence:
ex. gr. for conquest,
for preservation
of dominion over distant
communities,
or honor and glory,
or plunder, is murder
on the largest scale.

150. 48. or 7.
Anglice, if, for any
cause, such murder
be committed, suborners
are –
1. Monarch.
2. Lords.
3. Commons: i.e. Parliament.

151 49 or 8.
Actively or passively,
or both, they are, all
of them, self-corruptors
or suborders, or
both; supposing that
from individual
profit comes
to them through any
channel; ex. gr. dominion,
patronage,
prize money, &c.

152 50. or 9.
Among the war
profits, if there be one
which a man who
has been
to the war puts into
his own pocket, other
determinate individuals
sharing in it
or not, he is a murderer
for depredation:
accessaries, all contributors.

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§ Corruptive influence
Co-Corruptors

153. 51 or 10.
Droits of Admiralty –
how, by participation
in those profits, reaped
under that name
from piracy, George 3d
acted as a suborner
of murder and robbery,
as a murderer, a
robber, in the moral
sense of he words, as
an exercise of corruptive
influence.

154 52 or 11.
Parties to this murder,
robbery, piracy, subornation,
exercise of
corruptive influence,
yielding to corruptive
influence.

155 53 or 12.
All these, miserable
sinners, praying not
to be led into temptation.

156 54 or 13.
Of these men none
were murderers &c
in a legal sense: Why?
because, for every crime,
in a moral sense, committed
by them, impunity
is by law secured.

157 55 or 14.
Of the so much lauded
English Consitution,
this is an avowedly essential,
and indispensable
feature: impunity,
in respect of every misdeed
they may committ,
every misery they may
produce, to the sharers
in the supreme power:
impunity to the one in
form as well as effect,
to all the others in effect.

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§ Corruptive influence
Co-Corruptors

158 56 or 15.
Situations and cases,
in which, without activity,
adequate or inadequate
subornation
effective or non-effective is committable: those
in which, by sole and
conjunct exertion, a
chance of preventing
the misdeed has place.

159. 57 or 16.
Correspondent to every
positive is a negative
misdeed: as per J.B.
Dum. Legislation penale
et civil. This covers
the whole field of morals,
legislation included.
[Add almost sole instance
Anglicé, misprision
of treason.]

160. 58 or 17.
Suborner may have been
1. Singly adequate
2. Singly inadequate.

161 59 or 18.
Suborner a man is
if –
1. He would have contributed
towards prevention
of the evil, yet
has not:
2. if he could have
avoided receiving any
part of the result.

161*
In English absolute
Monarchy unpunishable
malefactor, one only:
Anglicé, Kings, Lords,
Commons and their
protégés.

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Date_1	1820-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::149 [or] 47 or 6 - 161 [or] 59 or 18, 161*]]
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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