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Introd
Observ
Coin
The defectiveness numerous defects of the law with relation to this
head of delinquency species of political mischief may be traced to one or two very
simple cause source. To every act of political misconduct
considered in the light of a principal act
an act that presents itself in the most prominent
point of view as being productive of a
distant mass of political mischief, a multitude
of other acts may be seen to , and from
as it were its , in the character of accessories.
Of these some are preliminary in point
of time to the principal, and lead to the production form so many links
of it: in the chain of conduct which terminates in it others consequent, and some as indications
and evidence of its having been performed. others again contain , and operating in on either or both the above
From this general view and without entering
into details, it is evident that so long
as any one of the assignable acts of an accessory
nature with which an mischievous act considered
in the character light of a principal act may be regarded
as connected in either of the above ways are
omitted to be included in the system of penalties
and powers provided by the law, is for the dispensation of the law now inadequate to their object or
what ought to be their object are defective and delinquency accompanied
by insecurity will be the effect. There is Within
the whole field of action of the penal law, there is no [principal]
head of delinquency in relation to which the provision
made in regard to the train of necessary offences as
the above described is as scanty and inadequate
as that which is now under consideration.
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jeremy bentham |
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