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1823. March 31
Constitut. Code.
Ch. XI Ministers Collectively Religion Minister <note>marginal note text</note> Punishment so applied is the very highest pitch height of tyranny It renders
for ever the Operation for in all its brushes against the Supreme Constitution. It
puts to silence and crushes the Public Opinion Tribunal
Reward so applied is corruption. It pays men indeed for
advocating there an opinion: what they believe true and useful but it pays them equally well for in case
advocating opinions which they believe to be mischi false and
mischievous.
It involves in it the absurdity of assuming that the
in point of approach intellectual aptitude, of the persons by whom
the law in question is made — not only over all these
but over all that can ever come after them: it declares
that quantity of wisdom is not in the direct but in the cover inverse
ratio of quantity of experience: and that to such a degree
as would warrant the taking out of their hands all minor
, and keeping them for ever in a state of domestic
slavery. Allow them this use of , you can not consistently
deny them any other. A very few hundred persons get
together, give to the most important of all subjects each of
them a few
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