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1827 May 20
Penal or Civil Code. Plan of the Work
§. 1. Offences collectively
§2 § 10. Offences affectingTrust

A King of England though in a somewhat different way
rendered so by somewhat different means is no less absolute
than a King of Denmark.

To a superficial view the right respectively
possessed by the Members of the House of Lords and the members of the
House of Commons may present themselves as opposing a limit to
his authority. To a superficial view: yes: but only to a superficial
view. For having power of life and death over every one of
them, they being every one of them subject to by him to capital punishment
in the event of their omitting in any way the do whatever he pleases
he has thereby by law the power of compelling them to convert into
an Act of Parliament any expression which is form of words which
it shall have pleased him to convert into an expression of his pleasure.
Taking with him into the House of Lords as many loaded pockets as
there are Lords, he may lodge in the breast of each Lord the contents
of the pistol destined to be in this way applied to his use.
He may thus deal by them as they have been accustomed to do by
their own pleasures and their own practices.

into the Upper House as the is the
Members of the Lower House he may deal by them in the like
manner.

To a humane King the operation would be rather an
irksome one: and to almost any King a troublesome one. The
constitution has saved him from all such trouble.

He may commission any man to kill them and as
many other men as he pleases. To this execution he may
give the requisite and appropriate and lawful impunity in
either of two ways: either by either of two instruments: by an
instrument of pardon or an instrument called a nolle prosequi
inhibiting prosecution: inhibiting it at the very commencement.

Identifier: | JB/068/033/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.
Date_1	1827-05-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	068	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	033	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d27 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	22228
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