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To be copied human laws to be binding upon mens
multitude of penal laws I neither know: no doubt the multiplicity
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".
publicity, & there will be no thing impolitic or wicked in our
penal laws: no fear <add> of their multitudes honed ensnare</add>
"snare for the conscience of the Subject".
men's consciences.
The mistake of our Author seems
— He says, what I profess I do not understand.
The author seems to imagine, that the moral sanction has
The n The Author saw th or thought he saw some difference
If the Legislature explains
in what he calls the natural & municipal Law: this
difference <add>lies</ad> was this, that his natural law had only the
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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