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Promulgation des Raisons. Forme. Loix.
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11. Serving as a
common standard,
by means of which
laws, of different
countries, on
the same matters,
may be compared.

12. Shaming men,
by the exemplifi-
-cation of the prin-
-ciples of common
sense, out of the
habit of referring
to the imaginary
Law of Nature: —
a mask for the
principles of caprice
and asceticism:
a perpetual
source of false,
or rather nonsen-
sical, reasons.
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13. Preserving
the Laws to which
they are annexed
from being changed
without reason.
A good reason
is a Sheet-
Anchor to a Law
and the stronger,
the better the
reason, it the
law. —
My dear -
- in with
a few more Rea-
-sons of your
own growth.
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Reasons Place.
Reasons, -
- accompanying
the body of the
laws, ought to be
distinguished
from the text;
but to be all
along closely connected
with it, in the
form of a perpe-
-tual comment-
-ary.
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Reason-giving
Current Practice

1 How it happens
that the practice
of giving reasons
to the laws has
been so rare.

1. Extreme diffi-
-culty of the task.
To make laws,
requires nothing
but a will: to
give reasons
for them, requires
an understanding.

2. Total want of
a rational sys-
-tem of morals,
capable of serving
as a ground work
for a rational
system of legis-
-lation. —
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Reason-giving
Current Practice.
I
Branches of the
Law in which
the practices of
giving reasons
has been most
in use. —
1. Police —
2. Finance —
3. Political
Economy —
This last in
particular. -
(Turgots Pream-
-bles.) -
4. Constitutional
Law. -

II
Branches of
Law most remote
from the practice
of giving reasons.
1. Civil Code.
2. Penal Code.
3. Civil Procedure.
4. Penal Procedure. -

Identifier: | JB/100/035/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.
Date_1	1801-10-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	loix forme promulgation des raisons
Image	003	Titles	advantages / reasons
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	in english and french; has note in richard smith's hand thus: "promulgation of laws / reasons thereof / principally employed by dumont / rs"	ID Number	32051
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