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1831 Feb. 12
Nomography
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☞ After bringing to view the several modifications of
command – (Law being a modification of command) viz. Mandative
prohibition or say inhibition, permission to allowance towards as applied
to acts positive and negative as per papers already
written, and the relation of the import of the word Law to that of the word
enactment with or without the quasi-synonyms –
of law, provision arrangement &c proceed to speak of
the indirect or say disguised modes of enactment: in the
case of which effects are (by the form of discourse employed)
effects are produced, in some cases different from those
professed, in others different from those intended.
Examples are
1. By fixt penalties, under the guise of prohibition,
producing to a certain extent the effect of allowance – of a licence, and thence
of encouragement, and applying by application of motive
and inducement, to promote instead of restraining the practice
with which to which being connected attached.
2. In the name and under the guise of a tax, producing
the effect of a prohibition
☞ For the purpose of giving an exhaustive analysis
of all the possible modes of disguised enactment – or say intention-continuing
and or -continuing enactment, work up what
is just mentioned with what had already been written in the Nomography
paper.
☞ Add if not already inserted the different modes of
giving expression to the same enactment (whether open or say explored
or disguised or say implicit): If attaching the efficient source of
pain or that of pleasure to the practice in question: viz. 1. the
categorical; 2. the hypothetical.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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