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Jan 7 1809 ss.2 11 Peines Paley Net 5

Ch Paley 9 Per Paley Power of relaxation not given punishment would be inflicted where not undue or not inflicted where deserved "Without the power of relaxation lodged ()
"in a living authority, either some offenders would escape
"capital punishment, when the public safety required to
"suffer; or some would undergo this punishment, where
"it was neither desired nor necessary."

10 But what is here assumed viz. that the punishment of death is necassary - is not true, since from malefactors as well as from madmen who ar when at large are more dangerous all danger is prevented by perpetual imprisonment The most persuasive — and thence, where erroneous
and pernicious, the most pernicious — mode of assertion, is
the indirect that conveyed in the indirect the oblique form by implication
or assumption. In this deceptitious mode is the here conveyed the
proposition that there are cases, and those of ordinary
occurrence, in which the punishment of death is necessary
to the public safety. In the general nature of things, this can
not be true: because for by imprisonment the if perpetual,
whatever danger the public could might otherwise be exposed to,
is no less effectually prevented than it could have been
by death.

Identifier: | JB/107/205/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-11
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	205	Info in main headings field	peines paley's net
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	35196
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