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Infamy

"In a moderate and virtuous government", says an
a elegant & admired writer⊞ ⊞ (I would have said under By a discrete and observant legislator), "the idea of shame⊞ will follow"⊞ ⊞ (I would have said, may be made to follow) "the
"finger of the law". Yes so as

Yes, so as his finger do not wound mankind be yet so employ'd, as to counteract and irritate
the determined affections of the people. He goes on and
says, "whatever shapes of punishment is pointed out as infamous,
"will have the effect of infamy". True,
whatever is given appointed by the Legislator as
a mark to signify his having annexed his disapprobation
to such a any particular mode of conduct, will⊞ ⊞ have this effect; it will make
[have at least make at least have the effect of at least] of
making] the people sensible that he wishes
to be thought to disapprove of that mode of conduct;
in most cases that he does really disapprove
of it. But to say that whatever the
Legislator professes to disapprove of, the people
will disapprove of two too, is I doubt, going a degree too
far. I will [this gentleman] him We may and tell to direct his attention to an instance
of an offence which under as moderate and
virtuous a government, I dare believe⊞ ⊞ (all prejudices apart), as ever
yet existed [upon earth] in this country, the laws have render'd
penal, Magistrates have pointed out as endeavoured to render
infamous punished by a punishment which in
general marks the patient with infamy, but which
no Laws, no Magistrates, no punishments will
in this country ever render infamous. I mean
[the offence libelling of] State-libelling: a practise big

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	115	Info in main headings field	infamy
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f12 / f13 / f14 / f15
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48332
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