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Of Punishments belonging to the Moral Sanction. 16
The punishment
of the moral sanction
being
& applied by the
political magistrate
becomes
a punishment
of the political
sanction under

are that of
so far
reputation

sound.

Hitherto we have considered the punishment belonging
to the moral sanction in no other point of view than that in
which it appears when standing singly, uncombined with
and uninfluenced by the political. In this state the direction
given to it, in which and the force with which it accts, are determined
altogether by the persons to whom it belongs ultimately
to dispense it, [that is to such members of the community
at large as the offender shall happen to have concerns
with] unassisted and uncontrouled by the political
magistrate. In this state it acted before the formation birth of political
society, before the creation of that artificial body of
which the political magistrate is the head. In this state,
by its connection with the various modes of conduct
which happened to be it was employed to prohibit or to recommend, enforce it gave birth
to that fictitious set of rules which are what some moralists
have sometimes at least in view, when they speak speaking of the Law
of Nature. In this state it was an engine, to the power of
which the political magistrate was a witness, before the construction

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	16
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	of the punishments belonging to the moral sanction
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48317
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