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any mode or lot of punishment towards
which be any violent aversion is
entertained by the body of the people –
since it would be productive of useless
suffering: which would be suffering borne not
by the guilty, but the innocent, and
among the innocent by those whose the
most amiable, by those whose sensibility would
be shocked, whose opinions would be outraged
and to whom by the punishment which would present appear
the to them violent and tyrannical. The effect
of such injudicious conduct on the part
of a legislator would be to turn the tide
of popular opinion against himself. He
would lose the assistance which individuals
voluntarily lend to the execution of the laws
which they approve. He would not have
The people for would not be his allies but his enemies.
Some would favour the escape of the
delinquent, others the injured would hesitate to
prosecute, and witnesses to bear testimony
against him. Insensibly by it By degrees a
stigma would attach to those who assisted
in the execution of the laws. Public dissatisfaction
would not always stop here, it would sometimes
break out into open resistance to the
officers of Justice and the execution of such
laws. Successful resistance would be
considered a victory and the unpunished delinquent
would rejoice over the weakness of the
laws disgraced by his triumph.

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Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	027	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
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