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Of Disaffection
Disaffection to the {person of the} Sovereign may be as manifested
1. By defaming him
2. By uttering verbal abuse against him
3. By cursing or publickly (a) cursing or wishing ill to him.
4. By publickly (a) wishing well to his enemies as such.
5. By publickly (a) [] expressing disapprobation of his
personal conduct.
[By Publickly](a) is meant in the hearing That is in
the hearing of two persons at once not being related
to one another in a degree nearer than the th, nor having
lived for a week together in the same home.
For expressions of disaffection to the Sovereign
no justification shall be admitted.
Nor any excuse but Compulsion
For any expression ofexpressing disaffection to the person of
the Sovereign the offender shall be thus punished.
1. He may be fined.
2. He may be imprisoned.
3. He may be bound to his good behaviour.
4. He may Instead of being imprisoned he may
be banished
5. He In the cases of defamation and verbal
abuse he may be made to do penance more or less
public.
The irresponsibility of the Sovereign [himself]
on one hand, when added to the responsibility of his
ministers [on the other] forms one of the most characteristic and
Identifier: | JB/072/057/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]] |
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