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N.S. Wales Illegality

9 Jany 1803

Beginning

In an examination of the system of government pursued in the government
of the Colony when founded, the laws passed, as they purported to be, passed for the foundation of it, could not remain long unnoticed long remain unnoticed. Astonishment
to a degree beyond altogether not to be by recollection, was the result of the very first
glance. Compared with the boundless amplitude of the superstructure,
the scantiness of the basis foundation presented such a contrast
exhibited other a colossus mounted upon a straw. Such is the
impression—such the discovery, of it to presented themselves a view
been laid for the exercise of those powers. At the
very moment of confrontation—the contrast to be
ideas—the scantiness of the foundation compared
with the amplitude of the superstructure gave birth an struck
with a veneration of surprize—such as I seem to remember
to have ever before experienced. It is to this
discovery so it may be termed by anticipation, that for as such the observation presented itself, that

gave birth to the enquiry, of which the following pages are
the result.

purpose? on the one hand, the powers assumed and
exercised.
In so doing I was led on the
one hand the power and ;
another hand the ground as it was that had

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Injury to the Constitution
the chief
mischief.

An additional, perfectly distant and indeed widely
distant object of research and anxiety from thenceforward now stood
before me. The injury sustained by the few comparatively few and degraded
individuals that had presented themselves as objects been the objects of the of oppression—this injury though so much more specific in its nature
and objects, as well and acute in its effects sting, lost more and more of its importance,
when compared with the injur wound that appeared to have given
through the vitals of the constitution, to the whole body
of the state. The sensation felt produced was such as I
can conceive to have been produced, on the part of
a considerable portion of some of the most jealous
lovers of that constitution by the use made in the
case of Wilke's case of General warrants before the illegality
of the power so assumed had been fixed by recognized by judicial decision judicature.



Identifier: | JB/116/347/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

1803-01-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

3

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

347

Info in main headings field

n. s. wales illegality

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f2

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

37880

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