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Indirect Legislation
subservient. These distinctions are not being intelligible in this essay
It is to those that I would apply the distinction
between direct, and in
Either Each of these may be distinguished into
direct or ordinary and indirect or preventive. I The indirect
or preventive branch as the idea seems to be
more familiar than the name: and it has
been more frequently talked of than accurately
defined. It is this This is thathowever which I propose [for to
the subject of or later a general view of in] this present essay. To form a
notion of it, we must begin with delivery or
forming a notion of that which the direct or and ordinary branch
course of legislation: whatever is beside that course
may be referred to the opposite head as above
demonstrated. A legisla To begin with delinquency The sovereign may
be said to act against delinquency in the way of a direct legislation,
when in as far as he prohibits contents himself with prohibition , under
such penalties as seem competent to [the case each casein
question] considered simply in by itself, the several
acts which are obnoxious to him: [that is supposing
the principle of utility to be that by which
he governs himself, the several acts from which
he conceives mischief to arise.] Under To the head of
indirect
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