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Qualification II
For the purpose

For this purpose in this and most other Qualification
- Acts 2 separate sanctions are provided
the one Civil, the a Penalty; the other Religious
or Moral an the latter also [backed also by a penalty]
It may be asked for it seems it has been asked why not trust to the ordinary
sanction of the civil penalty?

To this it may be answered is, that so invidious in order to is one thing & is
it it's effect upon delinquents some person
that some person should take upon him the quality
of informer: now so invidious is that character
& so precarious in the eyes of most men the benefit
to be reaped in this such a case like this by spurning it, that
this alone would be but a weak defend
it, the business is therefore to find many ways of giving it
: means are afforded by an . One may, it is to be hoped without any very extravagent
compliment to human nature, venture
to suppose, that there are many persons who would run
the hazard of the penalty for the sake of getting
into an office, who yet would not run such
lengths for it, as over enough & above that penalty,
to incur the peril and the guilt of Perjury.
The number therefore of such persons is the measure of
the accession of strength which the the
from this expedient.
considered as a function , being [Directory
part of ] the provision Nor is the <add>its utility [which belongs to] of this expedient is it as a strictly function, its only utility is in the nature of it to forwards the enforcement of the upon those against Delinquents whose temerity it was itself insufficient to restrain</add>
But it is not only itself a sanction; but even
should it prove insufficient of itself again to stop the
temerity of a delinquent it forwards the enforcement
of the other.

For the reasons that have been just alledged
it can hardly be expected that the pecunicary motive
for putting the penalty in force should act but as an auxiliary to that of resentment:
some violent dissention must commonly have arisen, some
flagrant mismanagement have been committed,
or some very obnoxious person been have intruded, himself,

Identifier: | JB/095/078/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 95.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	095	Main Headings
Folio number	078	Info in main headings field	qualification ii
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	30964
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