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<note>[+] In the field of law as in the field of agriculture - every thing kept as much <add>far</add> as possible in a state of wilderness under the influence of the same narrow and sinister interest - and by the same <gap/></note></p> | <note>[+] In the field of law as in the field of agriculture - every thing kept as much <add>far</add> as possible in a state of wilderness under the influence of the same narrow and sinister interest - and by the same <gap/></note></p> | ||
<p>But though boundary lines are here wanting,<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">principles</hi> are not: and if <add>in the English constitution</add> there is one principle <unclear>better</unclear><lb/> | |||
settled <unclear>these</unclear> matters, it is that <add><del>the power</del> of</add> pardon <del>should not</del><lb/> | |||
<add>neither this power nor any other, should</add> be exercised on such <hi rend="underline">grounds</hi>, and with such <hi rend="underline">frequency</hi>,<lb/> | |||
as to swell into, and be rendered equivalent to, a dispensing<lb/> | |||
power. <add>Go on.</add></p> | |||
<p>It was for exercising a dispensing power <add><unclear>this</unclear> any sort of power</add> that<lb/> | |||
<unclear>Juries was</unclear> drawn from the <gap/>: it was to prevent the<lb/> | |||
exercise of this very sort of power that <unclear>William</unclear> was<lb/> | |||
put into his plan.</p> | |||
29 Jany 1809 Peines
Pardon should be the rare case. disagree inferred from negligence.
if laws were made with the new though intention of
their being in nine instances out of ten.
Paley 3 Which is different from the power of pardon. the dispensing power as now exercised being the rule - power pardon only an exception & that for reasons assigned
Not I indeed: is my conception of the matter
between the possession and exercise of a power of pardoning
on the one hand, and the exercise of what is so well known under the name of a dispensing power
there exists a perfectly very clear and distinguishable difference.
As to the power of pardon, the latitude field of that according to
my conception of the matter ought to be given to it, marked out for it
as well as by what authority, has already been brought
to view. Such is not the field actually marked out:
for in this as in so many other spots or portions of the field of
laws all is yet in the state of primaeval barbarism -
all in a state of waste: no inclosure. no determinate boundaries, no boundary
line any where
[+] In the field of law as in the field of agriculture - every thing kept as much far as possible in a state of wilderness under the influence of the same narrow and sinister interest - and by the same
But though boundary lines are here wanting,
principles are not: and if in the English constitution there is one principle better
settled these matters, it is that the power of pardon should not
neither this power nor any other, should be exercised on such grounds, and with such frequency,
as to swell into, and be rendered equivalent to, a dispensing
power. Go on.
It was for exercising a dispensing power this any sort of power that
Juries was drawn from the : it was to prevent the
exercise of this very sort of power that William was
put into his plan.
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