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1827. April 20
Constitutional Code Supplement?Ch. IX. Ministers collectively
§. 26. Architectural arrangements

Note or Article
Instructional
Art.

Art. In English legislative it is a practice, among the maxims of
policy is that – never to prevent evil of any sort in any shape till after it
has had place in at least one individual instance.
It is . To this offspring of existence measure which as often as
proposition is made of any preventive measure of
security, virtual appeal is made by the question
– Can you mention any instance in which an individual
evil of the sort you profess to guard against has happened: had place?:
whereupon, unless and unless regular evidence such as shall be proof against
the exclusionary rules established for the wholesale suppression of
evidence has been provided ready for production and delivered, the proposition
for security is treated as theoretical, speculative and visionary,
and as such thrown out. – proof is To probability proof of
past fact is necessary, or . Nothing that has not No evil
that has not happened or likely to happen No evil but what is past will ever happen in future.
still Everything that savours of precaution is at once absurd and dangerous.
Such are the propositions, by which the any one of which the subject matter purport purport of a maxim so frequently
not only appealed to but acted upon may be expressed. No resolution True it is, that in
indeed in any one of those forms of words as those exact very words or any of them no Resolution is to be
found in the Journals of either House. The maxim is accordingly therefore
not a maxim of Statute Statute or as it is called written or say Statute law. It therefore But the
stands on no firmer ground ground than that on which ground it stands on is the same as that on which stands
the Constitution, at large is built distinguished by the name of the matchless namely the
alias that species of Common Law, which to distinguish it from as many half about so many
a dozen other species is sometimes, on account of its having so much
more writing in it
called also the unwritten
law.

To obviate the imputation and objection of deficiency in
respect of this requisite at the hands of a worshipper an adorer, between
in the existence of this same phantasm and thereby take
such chance chance as the nature of the case affords for
guarding these pages against averting the scorn of official averting authority from this from the present pages, hereto named are the
following individual exemplifications.

Identifier: | JB/039/243/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1827-04-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	243	Info in main headings field	constitutional code supplement?
Image	001	Titles	note or article / instructional
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	12250
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