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16 Aug. 1808
Arrangements proposed
6 V. Responsibility

Punishment made more the more improbable Responsibility of punishment by by the difficulties that more difficult
stood in the way of prosecutors Imprisonment a mere bugbear

It is only where the supposed impropriety of the
transaction whatever be the assumed standard of propriety and impropriety rises to a certain pitch, that prosecutions
can by any body man in office be regarded as at all in any degree likely to take
place. In regard relation to all modes and degrees of impropriety
beneath that pitch, the check constituted by
fear of punishment is thus altogether without effect.

The use of publicity is not confined to the strength
it gives to the check constituted by the fear of ill repute.

Even where prosecution is not thus laid thrown altogether out
of the question, the improbability of punishment, and
consequently the strength of check constituted by the fear of it is diminished
by every difficulty that stands in the way
of prosecution: by every cause of exclusion whereby
this or that individual is stands excluded from the facility of taking upon him the stature function
of prosecutors: and thus whether the exclusion be direct
or indirect. Direct, by prestin reputation avowedly
directed to that end; indirect, as by every factitious encrease given
to the either the t expence, or vexation i.e. the trouble attached incident to
that stature function and attached to it.

Many littles make a muckle. A constant and
all-comprehensive course of misbehaviour may thus be
constituted by a series of acts not one of them in
such sort and degree extent improper, as to expose a man
to prosecution and thence to punishment.

Let the but the check constituted by the fear of ill repute be taken off
from any department of government, which it may be
and will be in proportion to the degree of exclusion put upon publicity,
the business of that department may be carried become the scene on
of a uniform constant and all comprehensive system of misconduct.

Identifier: | JB/122/333/327 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	333	Info in main headings field
Image	327	Titles
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	E2
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	327
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