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6 April 1809
Press

Ch. 2. Libel law as it ought to be.
§. 1. This government This rule its causes.

Of this Essay the main objects are three: 1. to show
that in respect of the description of public measures, and in
so far as public measures are conceived the in <add>description</add> of the
conduct and character of public men, the press ought by law to be free:
2. to show that by law as it is, such description there is no such freedom: and
3. to show by what means it may convincingly and
most effectually be rendered free placed in a state of desir safe and
useful freedom.

It is in the character of a remedy to misgovernment misrule
– to misgovernment misrule in all its imaginable shapes – a remedy
in case of necessity, of the curative kind, and but – in the meantime
of the more desirable kind the prevention – that this
the use and value of this freedom if it has any consists.

To render its utility and utility and necessity in that character
– the more conspicuous and incontestable, it seems necessary
to exhibit give in the first place a general but comprehensive view of misgovernment misrule – its modes
and causes.

Next will come a view of the circumstances by to which the efficacy in that character and its absolute modes necessity and and necessity, in the character of a remedy against misrule
the existing constitution, the indispensable necessity of it in an
that character seems referable unrestrained liberty of the press so far as concerns the class of
men in question seems referable.

Identifier: | JB/118/405/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	405	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39459
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