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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 greater 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 in promulging 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 precision: let it not notify it's will with sufficient
thing, if every such law were a Subject publicity, & there will be nothing 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.
<add>The mistake of our Author seems</add>
— 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 was this, that his natural law had only the</add>
itself with precision, and notifys it's moral, & not the legal Sanction:
he mistook not in the ir directory but in sanctionary part: for the rule
will with sufficient publicity, I cannot of conduct for a good man & a good Citizen must be the same: the Characters are inseparable. Here was the
understand, how it can ensnare the Author's first mistake: Because the sanctions
are different he supposed the end to be so too. He saw likewise or thought
conscience of the Subject. I do not mean he saw some difference in the sanctionary
part & the difference is, that his natural law has only the moral
to justify the multiplicity of our penal Laws sanction, not the legal: here again he mistook: & because municipal law has the legal sanction, concluded it could not have the moral: & therefore supposing Conscience to let know not what, & affected only the the moral <add>sanction</add>
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