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Forfeiture of Reputation
a man to observe it, by his ommitting to annex any other
penalty he is naturally understood to be a kind of notice tacit
warning to the community at large to take the punishment of the offence execution of
the law into their own hands. All he does
in such case is to give direction to the moral sanction, trusting
to its native for the execution of his Laws.
6 3. By Exhortation
3. If the ordinance be accompanied by an express exhortation
to obey it, or, what comes to much the same thing,
if the terms in which it is delivered savour of exhortation,
this is another and more express declaration of his persuasion
of the utility expedience of the ordinance he promulgates. And the
more anxious he is that it should meet with obedience
the more pernicious [he it shews] he [appears to deem
the conduct
of any one who disobeys it, or at least the more
convinced he shews himself to be, that to a certain degree
at least the non-observance of it would be pernicious to
the
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Note.
(a) This anxiety may be proportioned not solely to the grounded or excited not solely by a supposed utility of the
Law but in some degree by a supposed propensity in the people to disobey it
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