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2 Inserenda 48
Observations
4. Board
§.7
37

of putting a form of words into a man's mouth giving a man to mumble
number of Oa of putting an oath into a mans
mouth as a matter of course upon his entrance upon his entrance into office, whereby a form of words
into an office, is a piece of carelessness which
as a matter of course, a formul <add>form of words calling itself
an oath, and promising to do what is right and proper, is <add>such an instance of legislative indifference, as</add>
though not in as high a degree has a tendency
of the same kind.

What I mean by this is - not that no such to reprobate
thing as an Oaths of office ought to be imposed - as a species of supposed that
obligation necessarily impotent, and incapable of being
nothing under that name can be made of use -
applied to any use,
On the contrary, if properly constructed, it appears
to me then in the instance of the office in question, as well as of every other every office it might
if constructed as it might and ought to be be, made of the highest use. But seeing before
me nothing under this name but what is nugatory,I should deem it an act of imprudence to come forward with on such an occasion with any thing
I would deem to be impru to propose any thing under this
name that shall not be otherwise than nugatory: it
would be unusual - innovational - utopian: and
in proportion as it promised to be efficient if adopted
it would be in danger of appearing ridiculous, if when
proposed [+].
[+] Unhappily for
candour, veracity &
moral honesty the
practice of imposing feeding
old and young with
false oaths has
been regarded as taken for one
of the pillars of religion:
and that
practice of imposing trifling
ones
is too near of
kin to it, not
to have come in,
tho' perhaps unperceived,
in for a corner
of the same
mantle.
At one time attempts
(though none of them happiest)
seem now and then to have
been made to give something
of this particular
sort

It is with no small not without trepidationIt is going very far if not too far on this
so delicate a ground, to suggest, though suggest even in
that I so much as to point out in
the most general terms, the appearance complexion that an
Oath o must exhibit wear in order to be of use. To
be of use, an Oath It must not confine itself to generals,
for then it is inefficacious - nor yet apply itself
to such points of duty of the breach of which a
man may be convicted for the purpose of legal
punishment, and by legal evidence, and for the purpose
of legal punishment, for them it is superfluous:
it should bear specifically upon particular points
of duty, but upon such points the infraction of is
sort of bearing to
in<add>is

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