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8 Jany 1803 True Bastile

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Moral consequences
1. Moral
of the agents

Connected with these proportions of dry law, are others
in which considerations of a moral morality nature are combined
with legal ones. with those which belong exclusively
to the head of law. Among the manifestations numerous <add> innumerable</add>
of lawless power, illegal are some and let us let candour add by
add probably (let candour add) by far the greater number which impart no moral
blame — which legality apart, impart rather praise
than blame — praise on the score of in so far as praise is due to necessary
and which in a word want nothing bu legality
to the laudible ones: measures taken for the maintenance
of authority and necessary subordination: measures
calculated for the prevention of mischief, in all its
various shapes. These may be considered To this division will be found to belong more
presumably if not exclusively, the acts of praise to the possessors of power upon the spot:
acts of the local authorities: measures suggested by
their producers recommended at least, if nor presented by by their experience: measures finding justified
more or less compleatly, by the nature of their perhaps <add>in every instance an excuse, in most</add>
situation, and by the of the case if not all instances a justification (I mean always in a moral
point of view) in the state of things so mischiefs and of all hands with which so unexampled a state
of society (in the a word in the of the case is encompassed

To other acts of another class description, no all such justification
all no justification in at all [+] foro morali, will be any more than in foro legali
[+] scarce any
thing that
can be termed so
much as an
excuse in
found applicable of any view of the matter be just correct Such are the acts, by which the
punishment has been continued in fact after the
term, during which the law had authorized the infliction
of it, has been at an end. Of the all such
expressions, the guil belongs will be found to belong indisputably and exclusively
to those in power have at times: indisputably
because the encrease of such oppression was of the
of the system; necessary to the fulfilment of the object production of the effect in
which

2. Moral guilt
as well as legal
of the principals
here

Extension of the punishment

Identifier: | JB/116/349/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	349	Info in main headings field	true bastile
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37882
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