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§1 Of the legislative composition of the laws in general.underlined text

Legislation considered with respect to its Legislation, its two branches — the inventive — the graphical
..... ... composition of the laws may be distinguished into two branches
the first may be stiled the or inventive branch; the
other the graphical or grammatical. By the
inventive branch I mean that which occupies
itself about the conduct which the legislation
it is thought proper the people should be made
to observe: by the graphical or grammatical
branch I mean that which occupies itself about
the course to be taken for the describing
of such conduct.

The graphical how far it may be applied to the improvement of the inventive
As to the inventive branch, the first rudiments
of it must have been suggested by experience
and actual observation and experiment: by observation of the good or evil
resulting from the several sorts mode of acts conduct
which by that means the legislator was induced
to command or to prohibit and of the methods which
proved most effectual for the procurement attainment of the former
and the averting of the latter. In this case stage
the inventive branch must necessarily have taken
the lead of the graphical. The graphical far from
affording any help to the throwing any light to the inventive branch would scarcely

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Box	100	Main Headings
Folio number	070	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::of [composition]]]
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	32086
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