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[Indirect Legislation] Religion

the attention of one who made sits about considering has nothing to do but to consider
it, yet the direction is the fi first object to
be provided for by one [who has the affair to regulate] to whose business it is to whom it belongs to take an active part
in the management of this power. settling of both these points.

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The proper direction
for it to assume
is determined in
all cases by the principle
of utility.

Now the direction which in which it might
to be made to act in order to promote the views
of the legislator is upon the principle of utility a
mighty simple point and very easy to determine
As a sanction it is This like every any other sanction is made up of an punishments
and rewards: the punishments of held up by it ought to be
annexed to such acts and such only of which
the tendency is mischievous to society: the rewards
of it to such acts and such only of which the
tendency is beneficial. In neither case ought it in any to
have any other direction, no not in any angle any the minutest
instance, than what the legislator himself would
give to that sanction which is more peculiarly his
own: in case of punishment, if it were not
for some of the considerations mentioned in a few
the last chapter Ch. 17 [Limits] § 1. : in the case of reward if it
were not for insufficiency of the funds which
lie lies lies lie at his immediate disposal.

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Identifier: | JB/087/020/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-6
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	020	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27545
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