JB/106/196/001

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18 May 1807

The case in which, if in any, it may be morally
right for the Judge with his eyes open directly or obliquely open, to decide in opposition
to the known will of the sovereign, approaches nearly near
to that in which, owing to some strong instance of mis-government
or supposed mis-government, the government is
threatened with a dissolution, the country people being more or less near
to a state of civil war.

In this it a state of things thus disastrous, each man
will naturally be disposed whatever to take in taking his part will naturally be
determined by the circumstances of the plan time and the time, and
will be little disposed to listen to submitt himself to the guidance of the best rules that may
be to be found in books.

On the present occasion it may be proper to mention
that what is said here has is not designed for the guidance
of men any any such extreme cases: that the state of things
here supposed is that of a settled government: the governed people disposed
as usual to submitt their wills to the will of the sovereign,
desirous of course to learn see that line of action pursued throughout
which on each occasion is most conducive to their welfare,
but as to the determining the particular course of it, content
as usual to leave to government to the sovereign understanding the formation of those
opinions by which the public sovereign will is to be directed.

Identifier: | JB/106/196/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-05-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-9
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	196	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34784
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