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but punishment. Under his System in
regard to punishment so far as it extends
there will always be some motive for
abstaining from Crimes. True and so will
there under any other system. Yet this is
among the arguments by which the Superiority
of this to every other system is according
to his notion of the matter proved. X Here take in Sheets marked ex 1. 2. 3
As to "relaxation of severity" no occasion
surely can be more amis amiable. But
why this labour to secure to the begnit
benignity of the Crown — of the Crown alone — the
monopoly of it? Though, so much to the
satisfaction of the Reverend Doctor Statutes
may be and are nine times out of ten made
of no effect by being dispensed with by
the Crown alone, they can no more be
made by the Crown alone Lords and Commons
without the Crown than by the Crown
without the Lords and Commons. The Crown
then in virtue of that benignity which is
indispensible from it being so constantly
disposed to relax the severity of these "last "and
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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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