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Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
better by mere liberty. In this plan the government
were to have a monopoly in this branch
of business. But why so a monopoly? If the unlicensed
prostitutes courtezans could be discriminated from the licensed
by the same rule might they from modest women;
and in that case one of the three great objection against the establishment of liberty
in this respect
toleration of
these indulgences would be removed It would be sufficient That government
should open a shop of it's own might indeed
be of use: for by this means regulations might be
established in virtue of which the business might be
carried in a more commodious and safer manner
than it is at present the time in question by any private dealers undertakers: Re
To conclude, the toleration of
appears to be of use in some respects; the prohibition
of it in none. To adopt the To adopt apply
the principles laid down in another work
punishment to apply the phraseology made use laid down
of in another work, applied to th such a purpose is on three accounts improper
as being groundless, inefficacious & unprofitable.
points in which
more is to be done by liberty than by
all the government in
the world
Liberty in
trade, in ,
& in Religion
gulations for ex
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