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Ch. Preface
(1) §. 1 Purposes and Uses
of this work
☞ . Lawyers attempts The less the parties are obliged to spend lay out in
delays &c that to use profit Lawyers, the more in expence that do
§§. 1. Purposes and Uses of this work
For the enactment or say establishment of any law
of any mass of the matter of law, if his species of power
the intellectual and the political — the concurrence in any
conjunction is necessary; intellectual, that of the legislative
draughtsman; political, that of the legislator. The political
can not in the most improved state of society be with propriety
in hands other in number than a select four: in the
earlier least improved it has every where been necessary of necessity in the hands of
single one persons.
But before it comes to be presented to the legislative
assembly in the Legislative Chamber, there is another tribunal in into which
with great advantage to the public, every law portion of the
whole is invested with a certain degree of importance
may be introduced, and that is the Public Opinion Tribunal
For the purpose of introducing into this Tribunal a proposed
law, the initiation apparatuses right of at once to every person
who can find adequate inducement for giving exercise to it
Into In the legislative Assembly proposed laws can not without
confusion be taken into consideration and compared together in
any considerable number. But by Not so in the Public Opinion Tribunal
they may be subjected to this operation in a number altogether
unlimited.
I introduce or attempt to introduce Into the Legislative Assembly a mass of law of a new complexion before
minds of men were especially to a certain degree prepared for the reception of it
would be lost labour and a hopeless task. Not so, the late
attempt in relation to the Public Opinion Tribunal
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