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To be copied human laws to be binding upon mens
multitude of penal laws I neither know: no doubt the multiplicity
Consciences, then" the multitude of penal
of our penal laws is an evil: but a much greater evil, & which is
much more likely to ensnare us, is their want of precision in
"laws would not only be looked upon as
enouncing them: s the want of proportion of fixing them: & the
want of publicity is promulying them. Let the Legislature
"an impolitic, but would also be a very wicked
measure the degree by the ends of punishment: let it explain
itself with precision: let it not notify it's will with sufficient
thing, if every such law were a Subject
publicity, & there will be no thing impolitic or wicked in our
penal laws: no fear <add> of their multitudes honed ensnare</add>
"snare for the conscience of the Subject".
men's consciences.

The mistake of our Author seems
— He says, what I profess I do not understand.
The Author seems to imagine, that the moral sanction has
The n The Author saw th or thought he saw some difference
If the Legislature explains
in what he calls the natural & municipal Law: this
difference <add>lies was this, that his natural law had only the</add>
itself with precision, and notifys it's
moral, & not the legal Sanction: he mistook
not in their directory but in sanctionary part: for the rule
will with sufficient publicity, I cannot
of conduct for a good man & a good Citizen must be the
same: the Characters are inseparable. Here was the
understand, how it can ensnare the
Author's first mistake: Because the sanctions are different
he supposed the end to be so too. He saw likewise or thought
conscience of the Subject. I do not mean
he saw some difference in the sanctionary part &
the difference is, that his natural law has only the moral
to justify the multiplicity of our penal Laws
sanction, not the legal: here again he mistook: & because
municipal law has the legal sanction, concluded it could
not have the moral: & therefore supposing Conscience
to let know not what, & affected only the the moral <add>sanction</add>

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c96 / c97 / c98 / c99
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31040
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