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1819 Aug. 26.
Fallacies

Ch. Logical High-fliers
§. King can do no wrong

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§. The King can do no wrong.

This aphorism has three meanings: one absurd,
another salutary useful, though but a make-shift, the other, unavoidable
and thus necessary.

The absurd one is — Whatever the King does is
right, because he does it. Quality declared by it to be possessed
by him, impeccability.

The salutary one, but though strictly speaking
not included in it but an inference drawn from it,
the King can not as such do any act, without the
concurrence of some official person his own nomination, who in
case of its being by the competent authority pronounced
wrong may eventually be punished for it. Plain and
proper expression — For whatsoever act the King as such, performs, some , other official person
appointed by him is
in a penal sense, responsible.

The unavoidable and necessary one is — let
King that which the King does be ever so wrong, he
can not legally be punished for it, or in any other
way be made to suffer for it. This likew Another
meaning not included in the phrase but only inferred deduced
from it and added to the first mentioned meaning — the original
and absurd one. Plain and proper, expression — for no
act which the King has performed done is he can he be in a penal sense
be responsible. Quality declared by it to be possessed appertain by
him, impunity.

In this case instead of being condensed into the compass of a single
word the cloudy nebulous matter is diffused through a whole page. But in
regard to the demand for exposure this variation makes no difference.

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Date_1	1819-08-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	306	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles	the king can do no wrong
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [with prince of wales feathers above] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	34277
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