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Indirect Legislation

Religion § 4

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The force of this
sanction will be
either not subject at the
to the influence disposal of
any human power
or 2. at the sole
disposal of the
legislator: or 3.
at the sole disposal
of a foreign
power over whom
he has no influence:
or 3. of
a power over which
he has an influence.
To form the clearer judgment To judge the better concerning the advantage
the mag legislator may find in augmenting the augmentation
of the force of the religious sanction there
are three cases which must require to be distinguished. In the
application of this force the case will be either that
human the will of a human being (other than the
party who is considerd as being the object of it's action)
has a share in the disposal
This force will either be subject to human influence
[I mean the influence of some person or persons other
that him who in each instance is consider'd as being
the object of its action] or it will not. If it be,
an either the legislator will have a share in that
influence, or he will not: if he has, either he has
the whole of it to himself, or there are others that
share it with him. If then he has the whole of it
to himself If then the force of the religious sanction
is exclusively at his own disposal and that as well with regard
to the quantum of it to be applied in each
case as with regard to the bias that may be given
to it, in each such case, [supposing always that the community to is
be perfectly secure of the legislator's conformity oonforming to the
principle of utility] it seems evident
enough
the force of which it is susceptible
cannot

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	14
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
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	27551
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