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8 Jany 1803 True Bastile

Beginning 4
Principal
maintained
1. of
the Government

Legislative power is and all along has been for the carrying on maintenance
the business of government in the Colony of New South
Wales. Lawful power of legislation has exists
not — laws not at any time existed — in that Colony: Actual Powers
of Legislation has at all times been — still continues
to be exercised there. [+] the
such the principal chief of the the the of which has
been presented to view by a into which
the I found myself
on the which it is the business of the
ensuing pages to establish.

[+] Such are the propositions
which have
presented themselves,
and which, as such
it will be the main business
of the greater part of the

<note>5
Consequences
of resistance
2. &
if person in
power there

Other propositions, though in practice of more distinct in the
and more impressive on the imagination; are not distant
apparent consequence <add>importance than the above, are as nothing</del>
no thing being the immediate and necessary consequence in substance being virtually included in the forgoing ones.
<add>of what What passes there for justice the greatest
part is so much baseless evidence: Magistrates are malefactors:
[+] to a past, probably the greater probably part of the
issued mandates, resistance is a matter of right: homicide
in the endeavour to subdue it could be actually has, if
the case has occurred, been — as the law stands at
present, murder. Not a Governor — not a Magistrate
that who has ever acted there, but stands exposed that has not exposed
to those powers at the that to this hour does not stand exposed to prosecution
upon prosecution — to actions upon actions— from
which not even the Crown can save him — and if
which ruin would may be the consequence.

[+] Delinquency which Delinquency <add>
which on
on the part conduct of the most
obnoxious of the
governed is but one occasional
incident is at the
all times, on the part
of the governing class,
and especially on the
part of the head of that
class habitual the
order of the day

Identifier: | JB/116/348/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	348	Info in main headings field	true bastile
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37881
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