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1827 Oct. 11
Penal Code or Law Amendment PropositionsCh. II. Codification

Quere viz &c

In the character of standards of right and wrong, this
axiom and explanation with the correspondent principle
and rules will at any rate be intelligible: whether conformable
or no to the greatest happiness principle the reader will judge

In default of such intelligible standard, divers others
altogether insignificant and nonsensical have hitherto been
in possession of being appointed employed, in argumentative discourse
especially when orally delivered in Parliament or elsewhere

Nonsensical phrase the first every principle of justice
contrary to every principle of justice – what is proposed is
contrary to every principle of justice.

Nonsensical phrase the second – the first principle of
justice – contrary to the first principles of justice what is proposed
is contrary to the first principle of justice

The two pieces of In one this point the two pieces of
nonsense agree coincide, and that is that there exists somewhere a
list of locutions generally recognized in the character of
principles of justice.

In the case and by the second phrase what is moreover
assumed is – that there are more than two of them.

But a matter notorious and altogether undeniable is
that no such locutions are or ever have been in existence – committed
to black and while in any discourse that has anywhere
been committed to print

Identifier: | JB/549/234/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549.
Date_1	1827-10-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	234	Info in main headings field	Penal Code or Law Amendment Proposal
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