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Qualification. I
In order further to illustrate the drift of the above
As a means of
throwing &c
throw a little
more light upon
the subject than
what immediate purpose<add>the matter</add> would be one
of the above remarks
would
give room for
requisite remarks I cannot forbear attempting to
give a short sketch after a manner asomewhat little
# accordingly to
method
have to say on
this occasion more methodical # principal points of the objects of attention
which</add> required to be kept in view in the framing
of a Qualification Law. What<add>The few remarks<add>short </add> I shall
have occasion to saymake for this purpose on this head will be is the
+
inability
being superfluous the more ponderable less chargeable with + misplacedout<add>super of place</add>, as ill placed[+]
the topic of qualification occurrs in many places frequently in
the Statute Book, in some of which is at take & not a little depends upon
the exactness with requisite in which it is handled.
its being well handled.
[+]
consider
[&c
alibi]
To the Legislative therefore who would keep in view there
two ends In a businesstherefore of this sort there are three main
points to be consider'd.
1st How to select the several species [+] of
[+] quantities property in subserviency to the first of these
ends and in consistency with the 2d.
2. How to adapt the verbal description of these species
—
to the several species which are selected in
—
that those not
comprized in it
shall actually be
excluded?
the exclusion being
put in force against
those at whom it
is levelled.
Idea. | It is in the nature of the 1st of these points every
| now & then to give reason to disputes, which
| no certain medium can ever be found for terminating
3. How to give effect to that selection by contriving that those all such persons as which are meant to be excluded
shall actually be + excluded.
+ remain
not interfere
The greatdirect difficulty in settling the 1st of these
To solve the 1st of problems to satisfaction
points to satisfaction is surety to therebeingis difficult enough there is no standard
of the propriety of the solution more precise
than the mere opinion the variable opinions of men.
To settle the 1st of
these points to general
satisfaction
since if different Sums
should be insisted
on by different persons
The 2d of these problems
however capable of an exact solution is one of the most intricate problems
in the whole Science as it involves andit involves in
it the dire adjustmentit the dire adjustment of the several names
to the several species of property of which
names those which are most current, the
familiar, are unhappily as we have seen in one mixture equivocal, and
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