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PARDON
others either the circumstance specified is not in being isse & incapable therefore of being ma
the subject of a Trial , or is of too vague a nature to be collected from legal
evidence. [under, legal limitations limitations of legal rules .]
The check therefore here imposed , is the only check competent to the subject , the
same as that upon Juries the sense of shame — to which may be added , Impeachment
of the Person applying for the Pardon in any flagrant case where as in ca
of the suggestion containing a very notorious falsehood - —
In the instance of particular crimes [to be specified by the law] for which, (should
there be any such), it may be thought advisable to retain punishments in hor
as it is called, without design of universal execution - as in under the Laws
against Papists, these specifications may be dispensed with.
? should he name of the person applying for the be specified in the would or would not this be laying too great a restriction on Pardons if a man venture was forced to himself to procure one
too whether any distinction this law between crimes
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