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1831 Sept. 19 1832 Feb. 1.
Constitutional CodeCh. XXV. Justice Minister
§. 5. Dispunitive function
(1)

Instructional – Exemplificational

Art. 4. Conceive a state of things, in which, the
punishment being Death punishment, the number of the persons
convicted and sentenced are hundreds, the number
executed, . Of this state of things what can have
been the cause or causes? Answer. Causes, These which follow –

1. The greater the number of those to whom their part
of the punishment is remitted, the greater the number
of those over whom an arbitrary power, of life and
death, is exercised: exercised by the unknown functionaries, by
whom, with or without just cause, this vast power power is
exercised: exercised in secret, and without any the slightest responsibility
or apprehension of it.

2. The gratification reaped by the pride of those
same individuals: the pride of repealing pro tanto the enactments
of the legislature, and thus exercising a power
over the so-stiled supreme power.

3. To the absolute rulers and their adherents to absolute government, the advantage
of impressing on the imagination of the people the
idea of a sort of Godhard upon earth as residing
in the person, of the man, woman, child or madman
whichever it might happen to him or her to be.

4. 4. This It operates – this idea – the confirmation, of the notion,
that is is from to the bounty, of a human creature thus
situated, that every other member of the community that community stands
indebted, for every thing the valuable, that he or she is in possesses
of: and that, as to him or her when so pleased, it belonged
to give, so to him or her when so pleased, it belongs to take
away.

5 In every Charter, received received from a Monarch,
and referred to as a source of right, this a proposition
to this effect is implicitly contained: bounty of royal bounty royal pleasure, royal bounty, in this
shape, is assumed to be the only security for good government,
which the people ought to have: but were it not for this concession,
or rather this he would have had and would continue to have the right, of doing with them
whatsoever he or she pleased,
and would have been
in the right, had he
or she done so.

Identifier: | JB/041/499/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 41.
Date_1	1831-09-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	041	Main Headings	Constitutional Code
Folio number	499	Info in main headings field	Constitutional Code
Image	001	Titles	Instructional - Exemplificational
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	C1 / E28
Penner		Watermarks	STREET & Co 1830
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Antonio Alcala Galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	001
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