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Civil Introd. 6

me by the law but at the expence of so much by the defalcati a a correspondent
defalcation made from the sense of liberty on your part
liberty on your part, and so vice versâ. Is the
profit thus made worth the expence? Such is the
mode of inquiry pursued in the ensuing pages.

What is the course taken in relation to this subject
by the FrenchDeclaration of Rights? Setting
Equality along with Liberty at the head, setting it them before Security, putting
aside altogether the question consideration of expediency, they
either forget neglect discover it cast it out it altogether or envelop it in a
crude allegation of the existence of equality as a
matter of fact, an allegation which in the character
of an allegation of matter of fact is as
notoriously as it is universally false. All men are
at their former at their birth and for ever afterwards equal
in respect to all sorts of rights. Proceeding at the
second step to liberty, property and security, they
virtu give exhibit them not in the character not as political blessings ends objects of political action to be aimed
at, as in the character of rights, which they declare to be already
in the possession of every human being, each in
the highest conceivable of degree of plenitude conceivable,
to be enjoyed and exercised and without limitation or reserve to any
getting of a fourth right, a right of making
resistance to oppression, a right which in the company exhibition of however valuable
it may be in itself is can in such company
be productive of nothing but confusion. Applied
to


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100

Main Headings

civil code

Folio number

137

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civil introd.

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d11

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Paper Producer

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Notes public

ID Number

32153

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