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Security on Lands PUNISHMENT vice FORFEITURE absolute in TREASON.
Seizure of Lands & profits of principal Monies to be only temporary, renewable A severity which cuts off their hopes by the roots at once severs at a stroke the tie which drew them to the obedient duty, & pushes them off to a desperation, which at the same time that it gives a vigor to their efforts of hostility makes the continuance of them no longer a metter of choice but of necessity
at pleasure by annual Proclamation. Great difference between this &
perpetual. Blackstone a double doctrine like the Egyptians & ancient Philosophers
There is a great deal of difference between an effort's being accessory to continue Punishment, & it's being
necessary to make it cease. + + Instance 3 g Articles which would hardly be established were the thing to do now. Right will much sooner take place when mere inaction is sufficient
make it do so, than when it requires an effort of activity in which many must concur, with no In
to prompt them, with many pretences to decline it, interested after by their passions to oppose it: what Punishment
cease the instant it ceases to be necessary, is a that I think will hardly be denied: & that it will be more likely
would be by another means, when a continued exertion is necessary to keep it .
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