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1818. Jany. 27.
Penal Code.Political defamation

1.
Political defamation
what.

2.
Assignment of motives
dispunishable.

3.
Assignment of bad
intentions.

4.
Defamation one mode
by fabricating a sham
suit.

5.
1. Prevention.
Antecedently to publication,
no licence
necessary.

6.
Reasons –
1. The unrestricted
freedom the only possible
remedy against
misrule.

7.
2. Punishment on any
other ground than
that of falshood is. to
seek to deprive the
people of this remedy.

8.
Discourses, repressive
of political deportment.
1. Expression of all benevolence,
omniscience,
and all efficiency.

9.
2. Expression of total
disregard for the interest
of the people.

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10.
Such feelings in this
or that proportion
always mixed in
the breasts of men.

11.
Extenuation politically,
in case of rashness,
exempt from
criminal consciousness.

12.
Reason –
1. Evil from falshood
less than from suppression
of truth.

13.
2. To each ruler, over
and above share in
universal interest,
a personal interest
and a share in the
ruling interest.

3. Of two interests equally certain, the
strongest is that
which predominates.

15.
The interest which
he possesses alone
will predominate
over that of the same
amount, which he
shares with others.

16.
Tendency on the part
of ruler to advance
personal interests
at the expense of universal
interest.

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17.
Sympathy for others
as influencing over
personal interest
can only have place
in a small number
of minds.

18.
Scarcely in any instance
is it perfectly
pure, but liable to
be confounded with
love of reputation.

19.
In so far as the interest
of the community
is rightly understood,
ruler's interest
coincides
with his love of reputation.

20.
Usefulness of love
of reputation in proportion
as a man
is supposed to possess
it.

21.
The larger the quantity
that exists in a
man, the more he
will be supposed
to possess.

22.
He who has the least
quantity of public
spirit, will naturally
make the greatest
boast of it.

23.
Small the number
of those who possess
a right conception
of the constitution
of the human
mind.

1.
Political defamation
what.

2.
Assignment of motives
dispunishable.

3.
Assignment of bad
intentions.

4.
Defamation one mode
by fabricating a sham
suit.

5.
1. Prevention.
Antecedently to publication,
no licence
necessary.

6.
Reasons –
1. The unrestricted
freedom the only possible
remedy against
misrule.

7.
2. Punishment on any
other ground than
that of falshood is. to
seek to deprive the
people of this remedy.

8.
Discourses, repressive
of political deportment.
1. Expression of all benevolence,
omniscience,
and all efficiency.

9.
2. Expression of total
disregard for the interest
of the people.

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10.
Such feelings in this
or that proportion
always mixed in
the breasts of men.

11.
Extenuation politically,
in case of rashness,
exempt from
criminal consciousness.

12.
Reason –
1. Evil from falshood
less than from suppression
of truth.

13.
2. To each ruler, over
and above share in
universal interest,
a personal interest
and a share in the
ruling interest.

3. Of two interests equally certain, the
strongest is that
which predominates.

15.
The interest which
he possesses alone
will predominate
over that of the same
amount, which he
shares with others.

16.
Tendency on the part
of ruler to advance
personal interests
at the expense of universal
interest.

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17.
Sympathy for others
as influencing over
personal interest
can only have place
in a small number
of minds.

18.
Scarcely in any instance
is it perfectly
pure, but liable to
be confounded with
love of reputation.

19.
In so far as the interest
of the community
is rightly understood,
ruler's interest
coincides
with his love of reputation.

20.
Usefulness of love
of reputation in proportion
as a man
is supposed to possess
it.

21.
The larger the quantity
that exists in a
man, the more he
will be supposed
to possess.

22.
He who has the least
quantity of public
spirit, will naturally
make the greatest
boast of it.

23.
Small the number
of those who possess
a right conception
of the constitution
of the human
mind.

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Date_1	1818-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-23
Box	064	Main Headings	Penal Code
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	Penal Code
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