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15. By the unofficial adversaries understand those evil doers
who are ordinarily termed offenders, criminals, malefactors. These
are resistible, every where resisted, & mostly with success.
16. The official are those evil doers, whose means of evil-doing
are derived from the share they respectively possess, in the aggregate
of the powers of Government. Among them, those of the
highest grade and in so far as supported by those of the highest
those of every inferior grade, are every where irresistible.
17. To provide, in favor of the rest of the community, security
against evil in all its shapes, at the hands of the above-mentioned
internal, and so long as they continue in such their situation,
irresistible adversaries—is the appropriate business of the
Constitutional branch of law, as accordingly of this code.
18. As in difficulty, so in importance, this part of this business
of law far surpasses every other. Of the danger to which an assemblage
of individuals stand exposed, the magnitude will be
in the joint ratio of the intensity of the evil in question on the
part of each, the duration of it, the propinquity of it, the probability
of it; and on the part of all the extent of it; the extent as
measured by the number of those who stand exposed to it. Measuring
it in every one of these elements of value in both cases, unite
will between to be the danger to which the other members
of the community stand exposed at the hands of these their resistible, in comparison with that to which they stand exposed at the hands of these other irresistible
adversaries. In the first case it has place on no other than
a individual scale, in the other on a national scale.
19. Inferior even is the danger to which they stand exposed at
the hands of foreign and declared enemies in comparison to that
to which they stand at the hands of their every where professed
protectors. Foreign enemies, in the event of their obtaining
the object of their hostility, withdraw most commonly from what
ever territory they invade, leaving the inhabitants henceforward
unmolested. At the worst, they keep possession of it: and in
that ease from the external and resistible, became the internal
of irresistible adversaries, such as those above mentioned.
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