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15 Feb. 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

There are two modes of places for keeping up the character of
public men: or to speak in more precise as well as
authoritative language words for preventing as much as may be the fitness of
"great characters" in their high situations for from being regarded
as questionable.

The one is – preventing them as much as may be from doing or suffering
any thing whereby their character shall be degraded,
where anything whereby such their fitness shall in any degree be disproved.
It is for this purpose that amongst other things, I
who am but a student in legislation venture with
all due diffidence venture to propose that no such situation
as that in question – no such situation as that which if
any thing has here been proved has been proved to be a
degrading one, should in future ever beholden by
any such high great or any other more than by any
there is any of those other characters: not to speak of the liberty of the press,
in which is included the liberty of questioning their fitness by
any one to whom it appears questionable, a liberty which
by every person is not must be acknowledged to be
some in some sort and degree a restraint upon misconduct, and by some people is
thought a useful one.

The other is whatsoever be their conduct – in
what manner and degree soever improper – and thence
in what degree soever their unfitness for such their high
situation is demonstrable, employing applying the "penal inflictions" of
the law for to the purpose of preventing all persons from demonstrating
any such unfitness or so much as questioning it.
This perhaps is the mode place which appears to be exclusive
of the other appears well adapted to the purpose, in the
eyes of those by some in such cases and for such purposes
such inflictions are called for, and at any rate of those by
whom they are administered.⊞ ⊞ And as legislation
is at present practiced
these are not only among
our proficient in legislation
but the art of legislation
but among the most efficient
and influential
of our legislators.

Identifier: | JB/147/247/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	247	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E5
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49472
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