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To be omitted be apt to conclude from hence, that the Sanction
of human laws was perfectly useless?
For if they can give no additional Strength
to preexisting rights: if they furnish no
additional
motives to preexisting duties, to
what purpose are they added? If human
laws can neither strengthen, nor add to, nor
diminish, nor any wise alter these preexisting
rights, and duties, about what is the wisdom</del>
If the will of the Legislature employed. By
our entrance into Society, new relations [Our Author however is mistaken; & takes away from human
legislatures, that importance they deserve. By

wise, and if laws are to be founded upon arise: our connections are extended. — Hence the violation
of these pre-existing rights is followed by a more extensive

these relations, then these fore existing rights are shock; & by a greater portion of misery. And
hence the rights themselves are <add>still are
</add></del>

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Identifier: | JB/096/040/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

096

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

040

Info in main headings field

Image

003

Titles

section vii / our author's account of the constituent parts of a law

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c112 / c113 / c114 / c115

Penner

168

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

31044

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