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19 Mar. 1802
Dispensing Despotism
Official Anarcy

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So again in the case of the Act of Parliament
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especially as the
Act which he
was annulling
to please Administration
was
originally but
the work of Administration.
By whose influence — at whose instance was the Act passed?
Was it not at that of the Minister? Did he mean anything
more than to get the power to be made use of as he should
happen to be in a mind to use it. Did he mean to
contract any thing of obligation? To tie his own hands
up? Is there any thing in the Act to impose on him
any such obligation? If there is it is but the mistake
of his iron instrument the draughtsman — a
mere clerical error — the effect of which can not be
too effectually corrected by the exercise of such powers
as remain at his disposal.

So again under the same Act of Parliament
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So in the case
of King and the
duke - the
idea of
was confounded
in these words
with the idea of
right
in this instance of the King and the Duke of Portland,
the King and his Duke seeing nobody in office to
hinder them — seeing every body in office to encourage
them to break the law — it never enters into their
conception that there can be any danger in trampling
the law — scarcely that there can be any thing wrong
in it. Seeing in the law the result of the combined aggregate
wills of a few men in power they have no conception that
what is the result of the same aggregation of wills should not
on any occasion fact of being equivalent to a law.

The Duke understands that he ought to keep his
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The Duke understood
that it was
wrong not to pay
his Taylor; because
Lord Kenyon
had compelled
him: but Lord
Kenyon could not
compel him to
from the
against the Penitentiary
House.
tradesman taylor, at least after having made him want for
his money for a certain number of years because
there is a Lord Kenyon whose business it is to make
him pay his taylor — and inter accordingly has fined
him to pay his taylor. This does not understand
that there is any law to he ought to pay any obedience
to the law that required the of a National
Penitentiary House business it is not any part of the business
of Lord Kenyon to force him to concurr in the creation of a Penitentiary House
as to punish him for the illegal and unconstitutional doctrines he has for the purpose of making finding a pretence for the obstruction of it.

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Date_1	1802-03-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-8
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	257	Info in main headings field	Dispensing Despotism Official Anarchy
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Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	E3 / F2
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