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I speak now of State Libels — Those to whom
it belongs, are as ready to punish as can be wished libels
they have always been so. It is natural.
Meantime neither they nor any one else, I
speak it without exception has told, nor
ever can they tell, as 1 the 3 Law 4 stands, 2 at present,
what a State-libel is.

If in a constitution like this there is such a thing as a State Libel
if it does more harm than it does good,
[it is very fit that + + the guilty those who publish them write <add>are guilty of them</add> should
be punished: but it is altogether as fit that
a man should know what it is to be guilty.]
There is one thing that is [very] perfectly fit[ting] right It is that
the guilty should be punished — But there is
What shall a man to to be read also another thing that is fitting: It is that
a man should be able to know what to do
so as to be innocent+ + I speak of those who write, & write upon state-matters — that this no man has told —
that this no man knows.

What I know of the matter I will tell speak — I will tell it

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I have considered the cases. I have framed my
Definition — It is this —
A State-Libel is that said written of a Statesman
For if any one to whom it belongs to understand these matters — should have framed to himself the Definition & ask me I am about to give — he will take good care how he tells it. [or a number of Statesmen] which is of State-
measures & therefore thence of a Statesman,
which he does not like

If I am asked what is a Statesman, what
are State-measures I have nothing to say reply
I must be pressed no farther. The Law has
never told me. How is it I should know
A State-Libel is this libel said written of a Statesman
which he does not like, because a Libel is
that written against any man which he
does not like — For a Libel is something
written & the being written makes a thing
otherwise innocent, a crime.

As to what very thing is spoken, it must tend to produce, or
tend to produce to a man some certain assignable
or some certain assignable account to
to make <add>institute </add> as now it what is called a mere civil injury,
but any thing will constitute what is called a
crime.

Scandal State —
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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	186	Info in main headings field	scandal state
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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