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1821 Nov. 18
Codification Offer Proposal.

Should it happen to this offer to find acceptance
any where where, the acceptance it will rest with he
§. Offer by the acceptance of the draught as above described
authority by which the acceptance is given to supply
§. Observations on the Author with such documents as shall be thought
requisite.

22 Novr What follows with it is supposed be superseded

A work of the sort in question not being within
in the ordinary line of public business – in being
in a word fact the first of the sort that was ever proposed
or perhaps so much as conceived – A questions to the following effect present
themselves for without as calling for answers.

1. In favour of the probability of your executing
a work of this sort with advantage to your employers
what presumptions are you able to produce. What In a
word are your grounds of expectation in regard to acceptance.
Say 1. Grounds of expectation what?

2. Why thus offer if the not produce the
work at once instead of their offering to produce it?
Say – Why instead of the work itself publish in offer by it? only?

3. Why thus make offer of it instead of waiting
for its being spoken? Why not wait for Say, Invitation why not waited for?

4. Your notions of what is best in the field of Constitutional
law being plainly repugnant to whatsoever the arrangement
which in
that part of the field of which regards Constitutional law are already established
in several of the Nations to which your Proposal
looks, what expectations can you entertain that such
part of
of thus giving any acceptance at the hands of their
respective rulers either for what regards that part
of the field or for what regards the two other parts of
the field namely the Penal and the Civil.

5. What acceptance can you look for, from Governments
established on principles of Constitutional law different
from yours? What expectation of acceptance from different principles?
Say, From different principles what expectation of acceptance?


Identifier: | JB/106/321/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.

Date_1

1821-11-18

Marginal Summary Numbering

4 or 3 - 5 or 4

Box

106

Main Headings

codification proposal (codification offer)

Folio number

321

Info in main headings field

codification proposal

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

verso

Page Numbering

d4 / e2

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

"omitt?"

ID Number

349910009

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