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Of the [limits] of thepenal of prudence Frames of law
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The foundation is laid, and we are now
on the point of entering upon the body of the
work. Our subject is the final branch of Jurisprudence:
or in other words the art of legislation
in matters of penal law. Now There are two other subjects
with which that sols before as which we have chosen is intimately connected:
so intimately that the limits between them are
by no means easy to mark out. These are, Private
Ethics, ethi and or the art of governing one's
own conduct in matters that are left free by
law: and civil jurisprudence, or the art of
legislation in matters of civil law. This of these
limits however it seems is necessary to have some
idea, lest on the one hand we should have seem to
leave any part of the subject that does belongs to us untouched,
or on the other hand deviate on any side consider into
a subject track that does not belong to us.
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Between private ethics and [penal] jurisprudence
the line may be marked out in much with much private ethics
fewer words. less difficulty than that between the two branches of jurisprudence We have already had occasion to and the art of state what are the cases unmeet for punishment: legislation as
meaning general
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