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Promulgation des Raisons. Forme. Loix.

11. Serving as a
common standard,
by means of which
laws, of different
countries, on
the same matters,
may be compared.

12. Shaming men,
by the exemplification
of the principles
of common
sense, out of the
habit of referring
to the imaginary
Law of Nature: —
a mask for the
principles of caprice
and asceticism:
a perpetual
source of false,
or rather nonsen-
sical, reasons.</p>

13. Preserving
the Laws to which
they are annexed
from being <hi rend='underline'>changed

without reason.
A good reason
is a Sheet-
Anchor to a Law
and the stronger,
the better the
reason, it the
law. —

My dear
in with
a few more Reasons
of your
own growth.

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Reasons Place.

Reasons,
accompanying
the body of the
laws, ought to be
distinguished
from the text;
but to be all
along closely connected
with it, in the
form of a perpetual
commentary.

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Reason-giving
Current Practice

1 How it happens
that the practice
of giving reasons
to the laws has
been so rare.

1. Extreme difficulty
of the task.
To make laws,
requires nothing
but a will: to
give reasons
for them, requires
an understanding.

2. Total want of
a rational system
of morals,
capable of serving
as a ground work
for a rational
system of legislation. —

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Reason-giving
Current Practice.

I
Branches of the
Law in which
the practices of
giving reasons
has been most
in use. —
1. Police —
2. Finance —
3. Political
Economy —
This last in
particular. -
(Turgots Pream-
-bles.) -
4. Constitutional
Law.

II
Branches of
Law most remote
from the practice
of giving reasons.
1. Civil Code.
2. Penal Code.
3. Civil Procedure.
4. Penal Procedure. -

Identifier: | JB/100/035/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.
Date_1	1801-10-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	loix forme promulgation des raisons
Image	003	Titles	advantages / reasons
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	in english and french; has note in richard smith's hand thus: "promulgation of laws / reasons thereof / principally employed by dumont / rs"	ID Number	32051
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