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NOTORIETY EXCLUSION from DEBATES v. Tit. Punishment A

The external foreign operations of the Executive Power must be secret, because often their very execution
depends upon their being so; so in a very few instances so perhaps in some scatter'd instances [which might be enumerated, + + As the steps taken for the apprehension of Offenders Qu.
(but which tho' few are frequently occurring)] must the domestic —

But howsoever it may have happened, that, in on a very few extraordinary conjunctions instances,
occasions the public may have been surprized by the Legislature into their good,
yet as a general principle and rule of conduct, nothing can be more pernicious
nor indefensible: it is a Rule for the making Laws not for, but against the People.

Founding themselves on maxims & sentiments, which conclude if they are admitted, in favor of the Aristocratical
or Monarchical Government in preference to our own.

However strange it may seem, that after the number of Auditors the Audience is extended to 500, the most formidable,
some of them for their dispositions more by their talents, any addition can should make a
difference, it may be found perhaps that the mauvaise honte that imperfection so remarkable
& so general in Englishmen, may be is at this time of day + It could hardly be very prevalent, at the first origin of this restriction, exclusion when criticism in style was little known: if it had been, in a part of this is the of reputation that Oliver Cromwell could maintain notwithstanding his speeches, which at this time of day would have their author with ridicule. one of the most powerful causes of all this affectation
of secresy.

A mauvaise honte, as it may indeed be truly stated, pernicious to those who feel it, which is
comparatively but as small matters pernicious to the public, in this it's effect, if it be
it's effect, which is a great one Turned the arms of the people against themselves.

Identifier: | JB/096/230/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	230	Info in main headings field	composition builder's act
Image	002	Titles	measures of unity
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31234
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