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The Primary Sanction cannot be annexed to
Prohibitive Laws

[+] 1st the number to them are is .
That of The must therefore must be .—

[+]When Reward is the Sanction it is annexed to [acts of]
obedience — When Punishment to acts , of
disobedience

That of The number of proportion of the disobediences is small
it Will Direction is formed expression, suppose in England, it is that men shall
not murder — How1 what Sanction shall they
it have to2 compleat it into a Law , Penal
or , — Suppose a Penal one — hanging for every act of disobedience
Twenty 50 murders then are committed in a
year — What is the consequence? that 50
men are hanged —

Now let the Sanction be a for age Primary
5£ 1 Guinea for example for every act of obedience
observe the consequence

The act of disobedience which subjects a man
to the Punishment is in an

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1st Because in prohibitive Laws there are is an infinity of obedience , to one
disobedience.

2. Because the of Punishments is the
only one of the two that is inexhaustible.

3. Because a Legislator can be more certain
of producing pain by the instruments he has
at command for producing pain, than if producing
pleasure by the instruments he has
at producing pleasure

4. Because

Identifier: | JB/072/002/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::introd law sanction - why penal rather than [ ] praemiary]]
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [pro patria lion motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	23619
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