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7 Apr. 1802
Dispensing power

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II Criminality
Judges. 1

point in question of very little moment. The greater
the pains taken to make proof of the exp inexpediency
to do of doing the act in question — viz. complying pursuing
with the will of Parliament — the greater the degree
of deliberation and reflection with which attached to the determination
to disobey the will of Parliament is attended.
The futility absurdity of these reasons are is such as
has been shewn already in another place.† † § Ground
of relinquishment Just
Improvements. But
were they ever so solid, the crime would not be
the less:[+] [+] Note
unless the mischief
referred to by the
term inexpedient
were besides its
magnitude to be [so
sudden] of such sudden
growth as not to
leave time for applying
for a preventive at
the hand of Parliament:
but this is
neither possible nor
pretended. unless the degree of inexpediency should arise threaten
to arise and that before there was time to apply for a
an amendment of relief to the Act to Parliament to the
polite of a national calamity such as that of a
dearth which gave occasion to an instance of the
suspension of an Act of Parliament certain certain provisions of the Corn Law by the King's
authority in 1766, a case which is not will not be pretended
to exist here in the present instance.

This degree of headstrongness audacity with which he relied
on in the course of ambitious guilt is truly cresious. The
servant right hand of the legislative power, the judicial would
be apt to come forward in aid of the head — and
stand in the way of his designs to subdue it projects for the over-ruling it
if he were not tie to tie it up. He resolves to
tie it up accordingly. If not extended to the judicial
power his conquest over the legislative power might be incompleat:
he accordingly resolves accordingly to compleat it. If not the
tied up hands of the Judges were at liberty, they might
come forward in aid of the legislature Parliament. he resolves to tie them
up. The supposed wisdom of the law — that imaginary wisdom, which
in both in all branches of it but his own subordinate one is in his eyes but foolishness, might stand would have stood
in the way of his own superior wisdom. He calls in aid a power that
which is superior to all wisdom the power of physical necessity, to subd defeat it.

Identifier: | JB/121/457/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-04-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	457	Info in main headings field	Dispensing power
Image	001	Titles	Note
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	D2 / F2<…>
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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