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1821. April 28.
First Lines Constitutional
Distributive
(2.)
Political offences — state offences — offences against Government —
are the denominations by which acts bearing
this character are, in these days, commonly designated; lese Majesty
divine and human is of the number of the denominations
by which, in former days, days of yore offences of this same description
were by the wisdom of the ancestors of those who numbered ancestry
among their professions, denominated and distinguished. In
Under a Monarchy absol Of lese Majesty a division was made
but with little difference, between its the parts — between that which was
human and that which was divine: lese Majesty human, an
offence against the power, crown, dignity and majesty of that but
too visible God, whose throne was upon earth: lese majesty divine,
an offence against the power, crown, dignity and the majesty
of the invisible God whose throne is in heaven, and whose
likeness may be seen at all times in any one of those earthly
thrones filled at present by the Frederick's the Ferdinands the
Alexanders, and the George's.
Under a Monarchy, offenses of this class, together with
the pile of securities raised for defence against them, throws the
whole group of offences really mischievous as it were into
the shade.
In the persons of authors printers publishers circulate wars leaders lenders borrowers hirers readers hearers, – if not the annunciator's, of like Belus discourses, – auditors and hearers if not the annunciator's of seditious discourses uttered in the way of oral Converse, all discourses either actually displeasing to the God upon monarch birth, or any of his chosen servants, or presumably displeasing to that likeness of his which is in heaven have long ago always been extirpated punished by Holter Holter, all or or imprisonment being that but that it is from the labor of subjects that power, crown, throne, dignity, might majesty and dominion of monarchs are derived from the labor of subjects, and that to labor men must live
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