JB/081/158/001

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1829. May 16. ++
Petitions
2
Dispatch Court.
§. 5. Procedure
exemplified not a display of
eloquence

an official promissory oath in the accustomed
style: a bubble of vague-generality matter, meaning
nothing, binding nobody: employed for no better
purpose than that of mischievous delusion,
by producing, in the minds of the unscrutinising
multitude, the belief of in the existence of a sense
of appropriate moral obligation in a receptacle
in which no such sense has place; — an
ideal decoration employed for stage effect — a
chain held forth as if worn by the minds, like
those well-polished ones which give grace to
the person, and pathos to the discourse, while
they oppose no real restraint to the motions of
the actor, upon another theatre.

Its object the application
of the popular sanction
to securing good conduct
on the part of the
tribunal

No: — is it is a pointedly-intended and
strongly relied on instrument of judicature.
What it has for its object is — the making application
of the power of the popular or say moral
sanction, as exercised by the Public Opinion
Tribunal, to the purpose of securing good
conduct, on such points, to which as the power of the
legal tribunal is not applicable to: the sort of act,
by which transgression would be committed, not being
susceptible of definition, nor therefore the individual
act of proof or say provation, with the degree of
precision sufficient to constitute an adequate ground
for legal punishment at the hands of a Judge.

☞ Here proposed Inaugural declaration.

Identifier: | JB/081/158/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-05-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	158	Info in main headings field	petitions
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f35
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	1828
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	25945
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