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Ins:a Punishment in propriam perforiam

Collective punisht. -ishment. For in this light it seems hardly to be
justified. It was a punishment, it was an
ex post facto punishment which was the less necessary
as there was already a punishment of
the same kind provided by the Law: to wit
incapacitation tho' it be but temporary. But thein truth
in the way by much the greatest part of the efficacy
which it could bewas expected to have belonged was
to it in quite another sense: on that of abuilt on another ground: on that its as a
measure of anticipation; calculated to prevent an
evil which but for such remedy it was visibly in the power, and as
visibly in the intention, of the parties thus disabled
to introduce: viz. a succession of Representatives
brought in in this corrupt and
unconstitutional way. It was therefore not punishment
for an evil past & gone, but Self-
defence against an evil still, subsistingimpending. Now
the expence at which this benefit was obtainedpurchased
for the community, could not well be less in any
instance than in this. The Franchise of Electorship
like any other branch of power public power is not an usufructuary propertypossession, but
a trust: an article of property which a man
holds not for its own benefit alone but for that
of himself and the whole community of
which he is himself but one. Those who are in
possession of it find meansare apt enough, it is true, of to desiring
from it a personal benefit to themselves: but this is in

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	punishment in alienam personam
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f37 / f38
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48355
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