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To be copied
"to the community in general." When he adds
with a kind of timidity and reluctance
"that this is rather a sentence than a law."
[I could have wished he had spoken outin a
bolder style, and as become a man and a
citizen.Though this be an a act of the Per
sons, in whom the power of legislation is
vested: yet it is not properly and act Is it done in a prop <add>their legislative capacity the</add>
or not? if it be, it must be a Law, for it is a declaration of the <lb>
Legislature, or at least not of the Legislature <lb>
will of the Legislature, is a Law. If it is not, if in this act, <lb>
alone. For in such an act, these persons <lb>
the legislative power is laid aside, and the judicial power only assumed <lb>
do, either lay aside their Legislative powers, <lb>
then it is a sentence. — But whether it be a Law, or a Sentence <lb>
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[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]] |
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