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occasion to decide. All I shall observe is, that
questions concerning the best methods of giving efficacy
for the laws take their expediency for granted.
If the laws are good upon the whole this expedient
will be useful upon the whole: if not the mischief
lies not in this expedient but in the laws.
At any rate the govern expediency of a law is taken
for granted by the government which established create it
or keeps it on foot: whatever therefore may be
the impropriety attributed to which others may attribute the expedient
on this score, it can appear in no otherwise than
beneficial light to in the eyes of the contracting parties
the governments themselves.
That in all every the best systems of law [which are
to be found at present] there are a great deal quantity of bad
materials I am very ready enough to allow: but even the
worst must be worse than I take them can easily suppose if the
good there is in them does not predominate ever the
bad. Allow Admitting this to be the case, every degree expedient
which tends to give them strength of vigour they can acquire will upon the whole be productive
of more service than disservice. Nor is it natural
to suppose that in the forming of any such conventions
the most assistance assistance sanction of one state would be had without
discrimination to the ordinances of the other. It
And The government of Great Britain would hardly
choose to bind itself to give up Protestants, persons pursuing accused of
accused Protestantism
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