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1831 Aug. 31
Constitutional CodeCh. XXV. Justice Minister
§. 5. Dispunitive function
(3)
Instructional
Art. or 3. Still more extensive is the field
on which the Rulers of Countries, while in the act of
legislation have still and the of in a state of apparent bloodedness, while of punishments
appointed by them some remission has been made by unauthorized
and hands, functionaries and even non-functionaries
are out of number has been the mass of evil
thus produced: the quality of corruption which may
have had part in the production of it.
But whatsoever may in this part of the field have
been the of the Legislators Rulers compared with those of English
they would be found to with .
Evil effects produced in every such instance are
those which follow –
1. The hand by which the function is exercised is a hand
in relation to by which its the or at any
the professed of the constituted authorities
it should be exercis
1. To the crimi every maleficent practice in by the repression
of which, the suffering appointed by the Penal law has
its sole justificative cause, encouragement given, instead
of the discouragement intended or professed and
supposed to be intended.
2. On the occasion of every
such maleficent practice invitations held out to th all
guilty persons to offer, and to all persons, functionaries included,
in whose hands this power is then secretly lodged
or suffered to remain, to invitations to accept, bribes
or say the wages of corruption in all its their forms
to be employed in the purchase of impunity for all
such crimes.
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