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Indirect Legislation
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The end of government wha in wha however as far as it is
what it ought to be, is to promote provide for the happiness of the
governed. Happiness is promoted provided for partly by combating
mischief, partly by promoting good. [ mischief may In The former
way is that in which there is most to be done by government
accrue befall a community from without or from within:]
and in which the ability necessity of its interference is least contestible - ]
form a Mischief may befall a community from the
adverse powers of nature or from the misconduct designs of man: from
the designs misconduct of its own members as from the designs
of foreign adversaries:. from the designs of
that part of
its own members
which is governed,
or of that which governs.
Of public mischief then (in a state)
there are three four great forces: calamity, hostility,
delinquency, and misrule. [Legislation may accordingly
be divided into so many different branches: of
the two first it is not my intention here to treat.]
[Of the means of providing against calamity and against
hostility hostility it is not my intention here to treat.]
If the Apposite A word or two concerning that
branch of (the business of) government (which seeks) of which the principal distinction is to promote goodl
Apposite as are the ideas of [which are commonly] to the
words good and evil, this is not always equally the case
with the phrases proportions in which those terms occurr.
To avoid evil is one way of promoting good; or
(can good be promoted without arresting evil) will
any good which is introduced be acknowledged to be
of any value, except in as far as it stands clear of
evil. The effects things themselves being thus
blended
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