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Exchequer Notes
At the time this brand of the prerogative
took its rise currency had but one form, and one species of subject that of
metal the pretious metals. For a long time it has
had another, a partial substitute to wit paper, and that to a value
at or at any rate to an amount little inf if
at all inferior to that of the first article of intrinsic
use. Hence it is that this branch of the prerogative
though nominally the same now as heretofore has
in reality been stripped of half its power: originally
it embraced the whole of the currency: and now
it includes scarce half!
If there be any where If in the whole scheme <add>system of government there be</add> an instance where
the idea started by Machiaveli, [and in the mind
Identifier: | JB/002/358/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2. |
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358 |
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jeremy bentham |
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