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as to swords & pistols, there they might it should seem
without danger borne the liberty of keeping in their houses & wearing
about their persons in the character of instruments for self
defence. Arms capable of being carried in secret & by that means used
as instruments of aggression such as daggers & pistols might
such of them as mere small enough to be kept concealed be comprised
in the interdiction.
In regard to marriage there seems to be no reason why
a man of this persuasion should in future be allowed to keep under
the hands of that contract more women than one. In a limitation
of this kind there will be no invasion of religious
liberty. In the Koran the having more than one is not
made matter of obligation: in a word the sort of pluralism
in question is an injustice in which even where Mahometanism
reigns, a very small number of men are partaken in comparison
of the whole. The first wife should accordingly while living be
the only wife. Over any other woman whom a man might engage
to live & cohabit with him, no power should be allowed
to him.
So in regard to succession. For simplicity sake the plan
of distribution applied to property upon the death of the possessor
should be the same in the case of a Mahometan as in
the case of a Christian. Neither in this would there be any invasion
of religious liberty, so long as the power were left to
a man of this persuasion to give to his property by his last
will & testament that course whatever it be, which is given to
it by the Mahometan Law.
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