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Indirect Legislation
Plan
subservient. These distinctions dismissed as not being intelligible in this essay
It is to those that I would apply the distinction
between direct, and in
Either Each of these may be distinguished into
direct or ordinary and indirect or preventive. I The indirect
or preventive branch as the idea seems to be
more familiar than the name: and it has
been more frequently talked of than accurately
defined. It is this This is that however which I propose to [for
the subject of] consider take a general view of in the present essay. To form a
notion of it, we must begin with describing or
forming a notion of that which the direct or and ordinary branch
course of legislation: whatever is beside that course
may be referred to the opposite head
As as above
denominated. A legisla To begin with delinquency The sovereign may
be said to act against delinquency in the way of indirect legislation,
when in as far as he prohibits contents himself with prohibiti, under
such penalties as seem competent to each case [ the case in
question] considerd simply in i by itself, the several
acts which are extrinsically obnoxious to him: [that is supposing
the principle of utility to be that by which
he governs himself, the several acts from which
he conceives mischief to arise.] Under To the head of
indirect
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