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5 The privileges of foreign ministers are
another risk mine of useless [and pernicious]
complication. Lawless arrogance was their cause
mischeifs of various kinds without any admixture if
good is their effect . In their iss being issus luck in the character of
there is no can do no sort of harm : f for in a good government
there there can be nothing but what any
body may know , for secrecy in government
is the g child of guilt and folly . The mischief
lies in their being protectors of delinquents and occasionally hatchers of plots <add>or fornicators of conspiracies , and habitually</add>
disturbers of the course of justice. Whether these distructions were formerly attended with any beneficial effects , may is a question of perhaps but not of use.
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jeremy bentham |
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