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foreknowledge may at any time be
absolute. On the one hand stands the
prohibitive article is rule of law with
the punishment attached to the violation
of it and of the act by which it
is violated. On the other hand stands
the Act, the transgression the subsequent
transgression real or pretended — a
transgression which has nothing to
do with that of the principal delinquent
a transgression which is imputed to
a person who is not supposed at least
to have any thing to do with the
delinquent out of which supposed
transgression thus imputed to one person
is supposed to have been made by
some rule of jurisprudential
a pretence for giving in spite of the
principal law impunity to the
by whom it is supposed
to have been transgressed. Here then
are two opposite fountains the fountain
of justice and the fountain
of impunity misnamed the fountain of
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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