JB/091/259/001

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11 Feby 1808

This order and mode of conveying the import of the law to the intellectual faculties of
the individuals whose fate depends upon their observance of the law, and thence upon the their the information
possessed by them in relation to it, is plainly in every
sense of the word a most preposterous one. The In
regard to these general and public commands the instance of those general the commands thus delivered issuing from public the authority
of public men, as in the case of those particular
ones by which the conduct of men individuals in the nature of a
family are regulated, the order prescribed by obvious utility
and common sense is – first deliver the command, thus
make it known what the command is – then will be the
time for any one to call for the execution of it.

But even this preposterous and imperfect mode of framing the
rule of action is better than none at all. A rule of
action framed in this preposterous and imperfect mode
is better than no rule at all. In England this
does exist to a cons certain extent, and that covering the
greater part of the ordinary intercourse between man and man of life, a rule
of action framed in this preposterous and imperfect mode.

Even in Scotland it can not scarcely be said that there
exists not any portion of at all of the rule of action
any portion at all framed in this mode: but the portion
if any which exists in this has there any existing mode is in an extreme
degree imperfect in comparison even of which exists stands exemplified has its existence
under English law.

Identifier: | JB/091/259/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-13
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	259	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	29255
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