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Click Here To Edit 19 July 1810 Fallacies
it being unknown not only, if one who he that one is, if
many who they are, but whether the discretion to
which all these lives are committed be the discretion
of many or of but oneno more than: if many the whole which
discussion there is if any being performed carried on in whispers, and
in closit secrecy, the life of the subject being tossed
about in from hand to hand, and the thread cut
by a whisper an interjection or a word: if but
one, and even if suits to the custom there are many, to mere expression
of will being sufficient, and no exercise
of any such faculty in that of the understanding
necessary.
The system of what is called Justice, legislation
and administration together, is in the perfectly well adapted
to these its words, and in a certain sensethe mechanism of it extremely
simple: Laws are made; declaring that foreach of these such
or such a modification if theft the punishment
shall be death: but by so standing an original and pointrule of
constitutional law, the King has it in his power
to exempt from this punishment, and without reasons
declared, and without need of having any good reason reason at all, any
and carry more he pleases.*Finish this+ + Impossible the King would be of the cases. The larger no other man who happen to have his ear.
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