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that point, it not belonging to the subject
here proposed for discussion, reasons would
be beside the purpose

But as to the matter of fact if such
(as the word is imports) was his belief, wide
indeed was his misconception. In the Actual
exercise of this supposed appropriated power
innumerable and undiscoverable are the
hands which in some shape or other have
a share but of this presently.

"The power of suspending the laws" too
high a privilege to be committed to many
hands or to those of any inferior Officer." Be it
so; but this is not the power which in the
case in question has place and is exercised.
A dispensing power is one thing and to that
head belongs the power of pardon — the exception
which it takes out of the effect of the general
Disposition of the law is repeated in every
individual instance and in no instance
extends beyond the individual case. A suspending
power is a very different thing.
The extent of the defalcation which it makes from



Identifier: | JB/107/308/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

107

Main Headings

law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)

Folio number

308

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]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1821

Notes public

ID Number

35299

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