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Indirect Legislation § 3

2

with regard to power of the mechanical kind: extent
as analogous to quantity of matter: it's force
or momentum consists of the one multiplied
into the other. The former latter of these dimensions
is that which is most open to admensurement
Strength of disapprobation is an undefined and a variable and
undefinable object: but numbers may be counted

3

Its force in point
of extent depends
upon [1. the liberty
of the press 2. the
publicity of judicial
proceedings
]
judgments passed
on the real conduct of
persons on real & recent
occasions 1. by
authority of courts
of justice. 2. by
by the people at
large

The force of the moral sanction in as far
depends upon extent turns upon two great hinges,
the liberty of the press, and the publicity
of the transactions proeedings in of courts of justice. The bar of the public is in
many cases the only tribunal before which the
offence can be brought in the first instance:
and as a court of appeal it is the a powerful
and almost necessary salutory check upon the proceedings of every
other. It is evident that the more public any
widely the intelligence of any misconduct, [of
whatever nature it be whether of the number of
those of which the laws may ought or of those
of which they ought not to take cognizance] is
spread among the people, the more certain,

and

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Identifier: | JB/087/018/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-6

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

018

Info in main headings field

indirect legislation

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

c. hamilton

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27543

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