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Jany 1809
Peines
"On the other hand" (continues he) "if, to reach these possible
"cases, the whole class of offences to which they belong Is
"subjected to pains of death, and no power of remitting this
"severity remain any where, the execution of the laws will
"become more sanguinary than the public compassion would
", or than is necessary to the general sevreity."

The case he has all along in view and to which
for the purpose of justifying it be all along his
argument is the which among the highest powers
he supposes to prevail - viz. for one out of every ten judgments instances
of sentencing to a man to the punishment of
death, the law obeyed conformed to to on the part of them who have
mere obedience to it, disobeyed and dispensed with on
the other . This state of things in his view exhibits is, as he presently
after declares, the very perfection of good policy: nor will
he permit himself to conceive as possible any other
course than that of either keepingas fact these emergency laws
exactly as they stand and giving

Identifier: | JB/107/209/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	19-20
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	209	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	35200
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