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<p><add>of</add> it. For what is a good law, but a law for which<lb/>there are good reasons to be given: reasons of one<lb/>sort or other <add>good or bad</add> it must have had at any rate:<lb/>for there is no effect without a cause. Oblige a man<lb/>to give his reasons and he will take care for shame<lb/>that they shall be good ones. A man will be ashamed <add>afraid</add><lb/>of producing any thing that is not sterling when he<lb/>is <del>about</del> obliged to set down a touch stone by<lb/>the side of it.<lb/><note>The question <foreign>cui bono</foreign> will <lb/>be a perpetual <add> | <p><add>of</add> it. For what is a good law, but a law for which<lb/>there are good reasons to be given: reasons of one<lb/>sort or other <add>good or bad</add> it must have had at any rate:<lb/>for there is no effect without a cause. Oblige a man<lb/>to give his reasons and he will take care for shame<lb/>that they shall be good ones. A man will be ashamed <add>afraid</add><lb/>of producing any thing that is not sterling when he<lb/>is <del>about</del> obliged to set down a touch stone by<lb/>the side of it.<lb/><note>The question <foreign>cui bono</foreign> will <lb/>be a perpetual <add>check &</add> admonition <lb/>to him<lb/></note></p><p>This is another and <del>a sur</del> the <del>surest</del> best<lb/>way <note>v. Supra<lb/></note> which a sovereign has of reigning after <lb/>his death. <del>Whe</del> If the reasons he assigns <add>gives</add><lb/>for his law are really good, he gives it a <add>kind of</add> support<lb/><add>a degree of stability</add> which its opposite can never have.<lb/>He binds his <sic>sucessors</sic> to the observance of it<lb/>by the ties of honour. Happy it is <add>It is a happy circumstance</add> that the<lb/>better a law is the better it is susceptible of this<lb/>support: so that a man <add>sovereign</add> in this way has the<lb/>better chance of reigning over his successors<lb/>the more it is for the people's advantage<lb/>he should do so.<note>It is a glorious prerogative<lb/>the <add>peculiar</add> prerogative of<lb/>genuine worth & innate<lb/>excellence<lb/></note></p> | ||
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Indirect
Misrule
of it. For what is a good law, but a law for which
there are good reasons to be given: reasons of one
sort or other good or bad it must have had at any rate:
for there is no effect without a cause. Oblige a man
to give his reasons and he will take care for shame
that they shall be good ones. A man will be ashamed afraid
of producing any thing that is not sterling when he
is about obliged to set down a touch stone by
the side of it.
The question cui bono will
be a perpetual check & admonition
to him
This is another and a sur the surest best
way v. Supra
which a sovereign has of reigning after
his death. Whe If the reasons he assigns gives
for his law are really good, he gives it a kind of support
a degree of stability which its opposite can never have.
He binds his sucessors to the observance of it
by the ties of honour. Happy it is It is a happy circumstance that the
better a law is the better it is susceptible of this
support: so that a man sovereign in this way has the
better chance of reigning over his successors
the more it is for the people's advantage
he should do so.It is a glorious prerogative
the peculiar prerogative of
genuine worth & innate
excellence
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