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4 July 1810
Fallacies
Ch. Posterity
§.2. Exposure
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3 or 2 Under a limited monarchy such as the British, despotism
the vesting a despotic authority at once in the hands of the
Monarch would be a rational expedient measure in comparison
of that which should seek to give absolute immutability to
any thing that bears the name of law. The Of the living despot
be he who he may it is not certain that he would govern
ill, it is not in any degree so much as probable that
he would be altogether behold with inexorable insensibility the mischiefs and
miseries that might be the result of the too long-protracted continuance
of an existing law. But, of the dead legislator
to on whose laws for the purpose of his serving serving as an instrument of tyranny the property of immutability this in idea has been
the p to
bestowed it is certain that by the sight of no
mischiefs of no miseries by the hearing sound of no complaints
could the pressure of his tyranny be relaxed.
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