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or impropriety of the point at which
it is fixed) the boundary on one side
that is (continues he) "the limit to
"which the punishment may be extended,
"and also that nothing less than
"the authority of the whole legislature
"be suffered to determine that boundary
"and assign these rules"; (an admission
that might not have been quite so
readily made had it occurred to
the Reverend Doctor to how vast an
extent the punishment of death has
been carried by what is called
common law i.e. by Judges without
the intervention of the legislature)
"yet the mitigation of punishment"
(continues he) "the exercise of laxity
may, without danger be intrusted
to the executive Magistrate whose
discretion will operate upon those
numerous unforeseen mutable and

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Identifier: | JB/107/282/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	282	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public		ID Number	35273
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