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3 [Correspondency] C Place and Time Of the [limits] of the penal branch of law

should not this fluctuate in reality, yet still it might
fluctuate in appearance: the apparent ground
for punishment, which is what the legislator must
unavoidably be governed by, might be liable to
change. Thus in the case above supposed. The sea
might not have reached so far as to leave the coasts in
question, free from danger: but the legislator might be persuaded
that it had. A mound which the legislator government had caused to be raised [+] [+] might prove eventually insufficient: but the legislator might be persuaded of it's sufficiency. In either case he would no longer be justified in continuing the people under the pressure of a restraint, which in hims eyes would appear to be unnecessary.

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From p.1. No Connection of the art of legislation with private ethics. Between the Jurisprudence and private Ethics and the
art of Legislation the connection can not but be
intimate. The end they have or might to have
immediately in view is of the same nature. [+] [+] The persons whose acts they are occupied in directing, and the persons whose happiness they have in view are the same. The
very acts they are conversant about are even a great many
of them, the same. [+] They go hand in hand
for a great part of their course. The business
of Ethics being to teach a private person how to
compass his own happiness by ordering his own
actions: of the art of legislation, to teach a legislator
how to compass the happiness of the community
that is of every private person, by ordering the actions of the community.
As to private ethics, mans happiness will depend,
partly upon such parts of his behaviour
in which none no one but himself is materially concerned,
partly upon such parts of it in which as affect
the happiness of those about him. is concerned. (a)
with regard to whom his own happiness will depend

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	influence of time and place
Folio number	024	Info in main headings field	place & time
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1* / f2 / f3 / f4*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	32040
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