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"and indefinite circumstances, both
"of the crime and the criminal which
"constitute or qualify the malignity of
"the offence."
The exercise of laxity? intrusted
thus and without danger? Yes the
exercise and without danger on one of
the two sides it must be confessed
but on the side on which it cannot
operate. But the non exercise? And
is not the non exercise as completely
within the power of the persons in question
as the exercise? And what is
this non exercise but Death? putting
to Death?
"Without the power of instigation
"lodged (continues he) in a living
"authority, either some offenders would
"escape Capital punishment, whom the
"public Safety required to Suffer, or
"some would undergo this punishment
"where it was neither deserved nor necessary
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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