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NOTORIETY. [VOLUME.] Impromptuary x. Deliberatable
of Dem constant x occasional Demand.
Where the occasions of demand may be foreseen or are not not unforeseen. (1 As On the one hand the Security of the subject depends on the precision &of minuteness, & so far consequently
on the multiplicity of the Laws — of those very Laws on which that very security depend as well as all other points of his prosperity depends
also upon their precision On the other [hand] the efficacy of the
Laws depends upon their intelligibility apprehensibility which again depends upon their brevity [Coll
separate & collective;] to reconcile in the best manner those adversary ends is an object
as necessary as it is arduous — hence object with with a view to the attainment of it nor therefore is in any part that
oeconomy of words nor even of syllables to be continued.
How much much manifest therefore then is the necessity call for disencumbering it altogether of the
parts, which {disguise discredit} it with their absurdity, as well as while they <add>as much as</add> encumber it by their bulk?
As therefore the number of Articles consistently with the former of these ends admitts
not, beyond a certain degree, of retrenchment; there remain but two methods by which
the former latter can be attempted pursued to be reconciled with it
The first is the giving of each article the utmost Brevity of which it is susceptible.
The 2d is the imposing upon each man the obligation task of knowing being acquainted with just such
a number of them as concerns himself & no more to impose upon each man the obligation of knowing just so much and no more as concerns him & no more.
If that should be impracticable, the next thing to be done is the facilitating his giving him the facility
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knowing them in exact proportion as is their importance to be known. I mean of their such crimes as they may committed by them in consequence of this anticipated knowledge as in the event shall will not be punished added to that of resulting from the he of purchased brought about by means of that knowledge, of crimes whether committed in consequence of it or otherwise.
Adjective Laws not impromptuary to the person in quesn (2 Adjective provisions are those on which the indemnity of innocence principally depends:
If law is turns out happily that those are of that kind which being not improv chiefly deliberatable, admitt of an unrestricted
amplitude
Because the number of persons [accused] punished bears so small a ratio to that of those who are never being accused at all, and who yet if they saw beforehand a means to evade the punishment would rush into the guilt, that the evil saved multiplied by the chance of its being saved, (the evil being means of their punishment in the event case of their being innocent), by their anticipated knowledge of the means of defending themselves, is much less than the evil saved multiplied in like manner by the chance of it's being saved. the evil complex evil They have no aptness for being known: but neither have they is there any occasion to be for their being known,
till the conjectures upon which whereupon they are to take place are come to be near at hand. A premature
knowledge of these anxiously inculcated would only serve to suggest projects of evasion He who
is not accused, should have but one thing to trust to safeguard wherein to put his trust as his preservative from
punishment, and his innocence: he who is accused, from owing to the chance owing to the there may be
of his [having been accused wrongfully being innocent], must be furnished with the knowledge of
those steps which the Law appoints to be taken as means to discover whether
he is the comes or not within the description of those whom it has marked for punishment:
a knowledge furnished not to the him not upon the supposition of his being guilty which however would never be furnished not to the guilty in at all to the guilty if they were known to be so, but which as the nature of things must be furnished them along with the innocent, merely because till those steps have been taken, it cannot be safely concluded that a person accused is either the one or other.
He who is innocent, supposing him known, need not know them; he who is guilty
supposing him known ought not to know them. He alone both need & ought to know
them who stands in that state in which whether he be guilty or innocent is the matter of doubt: if a
doubt which it is the design of these steps to clear up.
Those conscientious by pointing out the non-necessity of an active promulgation of
Laws of the adjective kind, point out a great saving that in the whole System of
Codes taken together: for by the same reason for which they should be inserted in any
one Code, they shoud be inserted in every one which in the Volume of a collection Codes in the Tabular
form put together in a volume would make a vast accession in bulk: tho' in the
Biblical form, a single insertion would be sufficient.
Laws Impromptuary x Deliberatable [XI]
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