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OBSTACLES
Arguments from
1. General excellence of the actual system
2. Particular excellence of those in power for the time
being.
3. Reverence for .
Temerity of projectors
Obstacles
Obstacles are
Internal Fictions
External panegyric
Interests. Professional} Of Lawyers
} Divines
} Authors
}Booksellers
of the Upper House Aristocratical
of Legislators — Indolence
Of Party-men as such+
In opposing a good thing because
proposed by their antagonists
who would give credit — besides
the bonâ fide prejudice.
Of all perpetrators by abuses.
Professional } Of Legislators }
} Prostration to Authority
} Divergent Idea of
the excellence of the Law
} Indifference to evil.
Divines
All persons interested in abuses of any kind
behove to make common cause against any
extensive plan of inquiry & reformation
The aspect of the eye of scrutiny is as malignant
to them.
Popular } concerning Liberty—against repeal of Mag. Charta.
of Age} Old men
No [Free] Man shall be imprisoned or
otherwise made to suffer for other but by the
Judgment of his Peers or the Law of the Land
nor in other manner
cause that what is specified.
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