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1827. Novr. 30

Law Amendment. Propositions
Beginning
or
Conclusion
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Objection answered
Improved by experience is
the alledged depravity of the existing system

§ Not disproved by the experience actual state of things as to sc is the depravity
here ascribed to the existing system

Objection The Law Subst and djective branch together -
under the existing system if it were really such as above described
how could society be maintained upon that tolerable footing in which
it is maintained - a footing superior to that as which it is maintain
with few or no exception it is encumbered in any other nature

Answer Of what there is of good in it, answer the following those which follow
1. power of the Public Opinion Tribunal a power which
exists not in virtue of Judge made Law but in spot of it
2. The imagination of the people under in virtue of the favourable conception
entertained by them as to of the character disposition moral character of the Judges, and
that Judge-made law which it is

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Answer of what
there is good causes
the following
1 anctive Put power of Public
opinion Tribunal
Imagination of
the people that Judges
are what they might to
be

Of this cause Consequence of the conceptionimagination, the expectation
that whatsoever ordinance and arrangements are would of the opposing
them to here place, be evidence to happiness,
actually have place

Thus it is Of that imagination the lamentable wit the difference between the pictures
thus drawn by imagination and the real state of the case days
the proof is it is true continually brought have to this feeling
and duration by sad experience.

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True that the contrary
is continually brought
home to their feelings
by sad experience

But, born as they have, all of them, been under this
state of things, and thus never having had experience of
any better, or the contrary history in so far as it has
happened to them to become acquainted with it, not have
my presented to their conception view any thing but what id at least either
fate as bad as still worse, thence it is that abuses
which in truth have been the work of design, the result of
particular and sinister interest on the part of those of the ruling few
are ascribed by them to the nature of men and things -
to the vitious constitution of the human race species

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But born under this
system they never
have had experience of
any others

If of this del the consequences were stable in
damnation of suffering, or for as it were would be simi would be an
argument against melioration and reform; But this is but supposition:
the just effect is what it is - and is not to rendered less
than what it is by blindness and delusion as to the cause.

Identifier: | JB/061/007/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 61.
Date_1	1827-11-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	25
Box	061	Main Headings	Law Amendment; Penal Code
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D6 / E6
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	George Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19696
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