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-nity that the legislator should take make it his endeavour
to augment the force of the sanction, will
depend upon the degree of the aberration.
There remain the cases in which the force of the religious
sanction is so circumstanced that a stranger that is a person has a
certain share of influence over it, and that in which such
other person has the whole of that influence to himself.
Now whoever has any such share, has thereby a
power over the persons on whom the force of the
sanction in question is consider'd as attaching: every
augmentation then which is added to the force of that sanction
receives is an augmentation of that power. This
constitutes the case which is commonly termed
termed that of an imperium in imperio. In
this case the legislator will be in continual the
sovereignty is shared between two magistrates; the
temporal and spiritual as he is called and the
temporal: the temporal will be in continual danger
of having his authority wrested from him by the spiritual:
and [this danger will of course be encreased]
by every accession of force which accrues to the
religious sanction this danger will be of course
encreased. In this case too the legislator (I mean the temporal one) who takes
an active part in the encreasing of the force of the
religious sanction, co-operates thereby in the undermining
of his own power. What sort of advantage it is that
is

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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	004	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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