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TURNP. ACT. New. Prelud.
Previous Publication.
Some of these observations may give room to think, that
in a country like this where the good of the community
is the avowed end of every thing that is done, & they
who have are specially intrusted in the power to consult it, are
not the only all who persons who may have the ability, disposition Legislative
establishments regulations might not in some instances, [not]
lose nothing any thing not lose in their execution by being submitted to the examination
of the public [at large, before their consummation completion.]
especially in matters
not exposed to the
ferment of
Conclusion
If any of the ensuing hints should give a check prove in any degree to the
Hydra of voluminousness which infuses new added venom
into pernicious Laws, & swallows up the benefit of
the wisest best, (un)told (if ever) I [can] gather strength
to attach it more in form, [no pains that it can I shall not deems my pains
have cost me will be] unpaid
Blandim.
They only alone can form have an adequate Idea of the
merit of doing what has been done, who are acquainted
with the extent & intricacy of the subject, & the numerous
difficulty ties that arises spring up out of from the necessary Formulation
of Legislative Procedure: or can well thoroughly understand
how unfair unjust it would be to conclude against the
of that merit, from observations if true,
that much many things yet remain undone, & many that
had better have been done otherwise.
distant & dispassionate
observer
No true Copy —
why?
For example, if it be true (& it is mainly so) that
the diremption of Beast of Draught in every Section,
of the without being compleat in any; it is plain, that
no Section in the new draught which exhibits
it compleat, can be a true copy of that to which
it corresponds.
The same impossibility of exactness results
from the assuming an uniform plan for the
presenting of the Imprisonment as succedamions possible renderingsuccedaneous or succedaneums
to the Forfeiture — & so of in other instances.
so
Then can the 1st Article of the ... [Carrier's] Section
which I have limited as to the provisions of the
not which it
to which it subjoins
an exception in its operation on the act affects
according to my conception of what was intended be a true
representation of the correspondent one and the original
which stand unlimited.
III Plan a regular admissible in a Statute
Yet surely it must be confessed, that if obedience
be the end of Legislation every Law, and understanding be necessary
to obedience, nothing that can contribute to this
latter intelligibility purpose [that is in the power of the Legislature]
is above the its dignity of the Legislature, or beyond its Duty,
that is within its power.
One would be apt to suppose imagine [& one should conclude
did were not the Force of Custom in matters of this nature [pertaining
to Government account to for every paradox that ...
may seem extraordinary .............................
...................................................]
from observing the extreme penury of all those
assistances Mechanical (as I may term them) as Logical, which
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