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Indirect Legislation
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The headings above are written in pencil. The rest of the page is in ink.
The end of government wha in wha however as far as it is
what it ought to be, is to promote provide for the happiness of the
governed. Happiness is promoted provided for partly by combating
mischief, partly by promoting good. [mischief may In The former
way is that in which there is most to be done by government
accrue befall a community from without or from within:]
and in which the ability necessity <add> of its interference is least contestible - ]
form a Mischief may befall a community from the
adverse powers of nature or from the misconduct designs of man: from
the designs misconduct of its own members as from the designs
of foreign adversaries:. from the designs of
that part of
its own members
which is governed,
or of that which governs.
Of public mischief then (in a state)
there are three four great forces: calamity, hostility,
delinquency, and misrule. [Legislation may accordingly
be divided into so many different branches: of
the two first it is not my intention here to treat.]
Of the means of providing against calamity and against
hostility hostility it is not my intention here to treat.]
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