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29 Jany 1809 Peines
15 Paley Confronted 4 "law Constructed on better con policy" - This supposes a comprehensive view to have been taken of the field of legislation but no such view has been taken except for the purpose of keeping the law as bad as possible
Construction supposes, Constructed? — by whom and when constructed?
if not necessarily naturally at least an architect: a person by whom, according to a regular and formed design,
the whole field of action has been taken into contemplation and kept in
contemplation, and surveyed with a actual and comprehensive and
reflecting projecting eye. censorial, and to the extent of the errors viewed in it, an inventive a <add>censorial eye</add> In England — (or the law of England —
where is there - where by has there ever been - where is there likely to be — any such
public functionary? Exists then any such in the country that human being, [+]
[+] at least any rate that human being possessing any reach or influence in the state,
who
cares for about the state of the law, whether it be good or bad -
whose interest it is to care about it except for the purpose
of keeping it as bad as it is and making it as
much worse as it can be made - whose duty it is to
care about it - or who, by any other human being
is so much as supposed to care about it?
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