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C 37
Of Confinement
Use of the provisions enjoining publicity. From p. 28 It is obvious, that when the purpose of the
confinement is directed to a special purpose
to particularly to that of reaping the fruit
of some distinct and assignable offence, there
can be no great hope that the injunction of
giving native taking the requisite steps for rendering the transaction public
will be complied with: since that would but
frustrate the design. But in whatever case such injunction
is not complied with, that circumstance
alone will be sufficient to shew the
propriety of inflicting in such case an the extraordinary degree of punishment.
in this case. The great use of it
is to check the mischief
in the case where the confinement is inflicted
upon a pretence well or ill grounded of
authority: by forcing the party who might wrongdoer
in certain to it to take
an decided explicit part, and either to desist from his
unlawful purpose altogether, or to pull off the mask,
and proceed and through himself into the track of criminality without disguise or subterfuge.
in the track of criminality. In a government of laws Oppression is
then only permissable to be feared when it can cover itself
with the mask of secrecy. To p. 10. last paragraph
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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