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To be copied much bade of penal laws I neither know: no doubt the multiplicity human laws to be binding upon mens
Consciences, then" the multitude of penal of our penal laws is an evil: but a much grater evil, & which is much more likely to ensnare us, is their want of precision in
"laws would not only be looked upon as
enouncing them: s the want of proportion of fixing them: & the want of publicity is promulying them. Let the Legislature
"an impolitic, but would also be a very wicked
measure the degree by the ends of punishment: let it explain itself with prevision: let it not notify it's will with sufficient
thing, if every such law were a Subject "snare for the conference of the Subject".
— He says, what I profess I do not understand.
If the Legislature explains
itself with precision, and notifys it's
will with sufficient publicity, I cannot
understand, how it can ensnare the
conscience of the Subject. I do not mean
to justify the multiplicity of our penal Laws

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c96 / c97 / c98 / c99
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31040
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