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1822 Decr 28
J.B. to Boyer, President of Haiti
Jeremy Bentham to Pierre Jean Pierre Boyer, President
of the Republic of Haiti.
Sir
Of the individual, who is then taking the
liberty of addressing you, the accompanying printed paper,
by means of the Testimonials contained in
it, afford you some conception.
It consists of an offer, for the framing of a body
of laws, in which will be united those
distinguishable characteristics, no one of which hath as yet been exemplified in the laws
of any nation country. 1. The design of it embraces and comprehends
the whole field of legislation:
in the design of it 2. It will has <add.throughout</add> for its object thereof
or end view, the greatest happiness of the greatest number;
of the individuals of which the community in question
is composed; the to which a profession it had the Spanish and
Portuguese constitutions have been directed: 3: In pursuit in pursuance
of this end any attached to each individual arrangement contained
in the will have for the is the indication of the consideration by which in the character explanation
an indication of the in which it of reasons it has been represented as being <gap/. to that and and in which explanation as well as the
justification of it
will be to be found.
provided if the considerations by which
is been to as being
to that In
course of the and up on the a body of laws for this or that nation, the will keep constantly
in view those distinctive circumstances of time and
place and time by which in a to different nations, from
those which in are the same in all. + and of
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jonathan blenman |
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draft of letter 2938, vol. 11 |
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