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6
Preliminary Panopticon Bill

In some instances they their reasons will perhaps be observed
to be of a wider pattern extent than the clauses to which
they apply. This, if it should be the case, will be
rather unfortunate: but reasons are stubborn things,
and must be taken as they come. They grow out
of the nature of things, and can not be cut down
to a pattern as the clauses themselves may. What
depended upon me in this respect, I has been done.
Care has all along been taken that the exacting clause itself
shall not go a hair's breadth beyond the subject-matter
of the Bill. [+] [+] Though the reason
be such as seems
to cover the whole
surface of the law
field of legislation,
the
The circle that bounds the
Panopticon includes all the innovations I have
presumed to think of make this caution I made a
point of observing not only to avoid the danger of calling
up merited opposition by the attempt to steal in an extensive a great
general measure under the cloak of a particular
one, but to avoid the incongruity of
putting a law in a place where nobody would
expect to find it. be prepared to look for it.ǂ

Note
ǂ Instances are, the reasons for restoring the competency
to the testimony of Penitentiary-Men: those
for dispensing with the Statute of Apprenticeships
in their favour, In all the and many several others. In
all these instances, howsoever repeal may
appear the obvious conclusion, I have confined
myself to dispensation, as being the only pertinent
one.



Identifier: | JB/124/020/002
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

124

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

020

Info in main headings field

panopticon bill

Image

002

Titles

note

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d5 / d6

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

41709

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