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1827. Octr. 25 +
Law Amendment or Penal Code

Propositions
Ch. 2. Codification
§.4 First principles
Offences collectively
First principles of Justice
Good and evil progress

Ch. 1. First principles of Justice and political economy: Good and evil their moral progress
from human agency — their progress in the community

Existing System
First principles of
justice — under existing
system are words
without meaning — to
annexe meaning to them
is the object of the
following observations

Every principle of justice — the first principle of justice
By these phrases are designated a sort of standard applied to which may be
heard continually made. As yet Under the existing system they are these are words
without meaning: to phrases to which by which questions of the first
importance are decided or at least endeavoured to be decided it seems however
that some meaning be annexed. For To this purpose are destined the
following observations following

2
Good & evil their progress
from human
agency require to be
traced for two purposes
1 for justice 2 for political
economy

3
First principles of
justice those on which
security depends — of
political economy those
on which subsistence
abundance & equality
depend

For two distinguishable purposes the gr progress of good and evil in growth of good and evil out of
human agency society requires to be traced out; for justice and for political
economy. The principles of justice are the principles on conformity
to which internal security depends: the principles of political economy are
the principles of which the distribution made of the matter of
wealth by the authority of the state for the purposes of subsistence
abundance and equality depends: meaning by equality nothing
more than absence of mischievous inequality: for as to
absolute equality, neither is it possible nor would it be desirable.

4
Principles for the
establishment of security
the only ones
which belong to the
present design

The principles Of these two sets of principles those by which security is established are the only
ones which belong to the present design. in so far as regard the composition
of a for the purpose of The More permanent in their
nature of those are the arrangements belonging which belong to this head than those which belong
to the head of political economy. For the purpose of justice the arrangement
of detail supposing them at the time of settlement in
a state at a point of perfection would might for any length of time remain
in the with little or no need of alteration. Not so those
which belong to political economy. At that same imaginary point of
time were they ever so prefect, need of alteration in enactment would be continually
producing by need of alteration in and terms
of place and time.

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Date_1	1827-10-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	061	Main Headings	Law Amendment; Penal Code
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment or Penal Code
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1 / E1
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