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of it. For what is a good law, but a law for which
there are good reasons to be given: reasons of one
sort or other good or bad it must have had at any rate:
for there is no effect without a cause. Oblige a man
to give his reasons and he will take care for shame
that they shall be good ones. A man will be ashamed afraid
of producing any thing that is not sterling when he
is about obliged to set down a touch stone by
the side of it.
The question cui bono will
be a perpetual check & admonition
to him

This is another and a sur the surest best
way v. Supra
which a sovereign has of reigning after
his death. Whe If the reasons he assigns gives
for his law are really good, he gives it a kind of support
a degree of stability which its opposite can never have.
He binds his sucessors to the observance of it
by the ties of honour. Happy it is It is a happy circumstance that the
better a law is the better it is susceptible of this
support: so that a man sovereign in this way has the
better chance of reigning over his successors
the more it is for the people's advantage
he should do so.It is a glorious prerogative
the peculiar prerogative of
genuine worth & innate
excellence

Identifier: | JB/087/111/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	111	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27636
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