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1822 Aug. 9 Constitut. Code.

1.

Fiction, what. Falsehood
acknowledged,
from and acted on as
true.

2.

Properties of falsehood in
this form
1. Never employed but to
a bad thence in unjustifiable
purpose. No man
employs falsehood when
truth will serve.
2. Capable of being employed
to every bad purpose.
3. Never, but with bad
effect.
4. Evidence conclusive
of the mischievousness
of the exercise of power
supported by it.
5. So of the the inaptitude
of the form of government.
6. So of moral depravity
in the inventory.
7. So in the constituted
employers.
8. So of intellectual
weakness in the acquiescing
nation.

3.

Inventors and employers —
lawyers, viz.
1. Judges
2. Law writers.

4.

Persons to whose sinister
interest sinister
service has been rendered
by it.
1. The inventors.
2. The monarch, whose
removable creatures
they were.


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5.

The sinister service is
1. Particular; enabling
the inventor in each
instance to operate
the injustice, of which
it was made the instrument.

6.

2. General: contributory
to encrease in the
people the intellectual
weakness, on which
their obsequiousness
to it depends.
2. Their demoralization,
by causing them to attribute
to their rulers
the power of converting
vice into virtue; and
thus to entertain a propensity
to the practice
of it.



Identifier: | JB/038/162/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.

Date_1

1822-08-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-6

Box

038

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

162

Info in main headings field

constitut. code

Image

001

Titles

Category

marginal summary sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

j whatman 1819

Marginals

Paper Producer

john flowerdew colls

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

ID Number

11799

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