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But as to the matter of fact, if such (as the word is
imparts) was his belief, wide indeed was his misconception.
In the exerciseactual of this supposed appropriated persons, innumerable and undiscoverable are the hands which in some
wayshape or other have a share: but of this presumably

The power of suspending the laws" too high a priority"
to be committed to many hands/+ or to those
of any inferior officer". But Be it so: but this is anot
the power which in the case in question is has place and is exercised.
A dispensing power is as King: and to thatthis hand belongs
the power of pardon: the exception defalution which it takesmakes from all of
the office of the general ruledisposition of the law is supported in every individual
instance, and extends notin no instance extends beyond the individual
case. A suspending power is another a very differentthing: the
defaliationextent of the which it makes from the office of the /add> general disposition
of the law is determined by the circumstance of time: and
imbraces all individ without distinction all such individual
cases as happen to present themselves within the
length of time marked out <add>by for it.

"Too high a privilege to be committed to many
hands." Here the reverend Doctor is onceagain more in the clouds:
and not knowing exactly what his own meaning is, he not
put it in the power of his madness to determine it. By the
multitudemultiplicity of the of hands, according as their question is joint or
several or joint the defaliation made from theby the exercise of the power vested in them effect of the
general disposition of the law ismay be either increasedextended or diminishedor restricted
If to theThe number being given, each exercise of the power it be necessary that
they all concurr, the greater the number the less efficient the
power,
and the less less the defaliation made by it from the effect of the general disposition of the law. JB
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Identifier: | JB/107/236/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	2-3
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	236	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e35
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	35227
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