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1822 Aug. 9 Constitut. Code.
1.
Fiction, what. Falsehood 
 acknowledged, 
 from and acted on as 
 true.
2.
Properties of falsehood in
 this form
 1. Never employed but to
 a bad thence in unjustifiable
 purpose. No man
 employs falsehood when
 truth will serve.
 2. Capable of being employed
 to every bad purpose.
 3. Never, but with bad
 effect.
 4. Evidence conclusive
 of the mischievousness
 of the exercise of power
 supported by it.
 5. So of the the inaptitude
 of the form of government.
 6. So of moral depravity
 in the inventory.
 7. So in the constituted
 employers.
 8. So of intellectual
 weakness in the acquiescing 
nation.
3.
Inventors and employers —
 lawyers, viz.
 1. Judges
 2. Law writers.
4.
Persons to whose sinister
 interest sinister
 service has been rendered 
by it.
 1. The inventors.
 2. The monarch, whose
 removable creatures
 they were.
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5.
The sinister service is
 1. Particular; enabling
 the inventor in each
 instance to operate
 the injustice, of which
 it was made the instrument.
6.
2. General: contributory
 to encrease in the
 people the intellectual
 weakness, on which
 their obsequiousness
 to it depends.
 2. Their demoralization,
 by causing them to attribute
 to their rulers
 the power of converting 
 vice into virtue; and
 thus to entertain a propensity
 to the practice
 of it.
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