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Indirect Legislation
Misrule
Excluding arbitrary
day I may be so tomorrow: or if not somebody else
may: and I may be taken for that somebody else
In the reign of Lewis 16th lettres de cachet, it has
said been said with confidence were made an article of trade. I have never
heard that they have in the present: but who
can tell? the apprehension of abuse. When from
the nature of things mischief an apprehension is incurable,
well or ill grounded the mischief of it is
the same.
If In default of justice and humanity, I wonder
that pride and vanity has never stept in and shewn the
disgrace that attends the pursuit of this miserable
system. To be at the head of an enlighted That in France at the end of the
people, in an enlightend age, and not to know 18th century there should not be ingenuity enough to carry on the affairs of
government
!
how to govern their [govern] manage the business of government without violating every hour
day the clearest principles of justice! that the ministers
of Lewis 16th should not know acknowledge confess
themselves unable to support him in his throne
without violences which Lotharius or Clotharius
or Clodoacharius or whatever was the barbarian's
name v. Baluz: ibid.
was ashamed [of !] to authorise! could not bear to see!
In England we have rules of evidence which
are of use only to guilt, for innocence has no need
of them. On the other side of the water they have powers
of procedure which are of use only against innocence,
for
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