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To be copied the resolutions of the British Legislature
are not notified to the people who are to obey
them. Yet when he afterwards treats of the them. How lucky it is that a man in our Author's high station has
taken notice <add>marked in such strongly the terms the necessity of remdying a proper</add>
British Parliament, he very gravely tells promulgation of the Legislator's Will. That he has even made it an
essential part, a sine quâ non of law. I turned to the article of
us "that there needs no formal promulgation Vol 1. P.185 Parliament: & these I read
"of a Statute to give it the force of a law, as —
"was necessary with by the civil law with regard
"to the Emperor's edicts: because
"every man in England is, in judgment
"of law, party to the making of an act of
"Parliament, being present there at by
"his Representatives." [It is hard to say It would be difficult
whether this kind of reasoning excites most hard to say, whether I felt more indignation, or contempt
at this passage: & w I threw the Book from me:
contempt & exclaimed with Fontenelle "<foreign>Il n'est mon homme <add>que</foreign></add>

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	038	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c104 / c105 / c106 / c107
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31042
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