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[xxxvi. 168] 1822 July 19 Constitut
[xxxvi. 168]

1822 July 19

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Operative?

I Monarch

Instruments

Fiction

Fiction.

Consideranda in relation to it

1. Evils produced by it, considered in a general point of view

2. By whom employed.

3. To whose benefit employed.

4 For whose benefit employed

5. At whose expence employed.

6. Occasions on which it has been employed: i.e. Parts of the field of Legislation to which application has been made of it.

?.1. Evils produced by it

1. In general all the evils of Misrule. Falshood is essentially an instrument of evil: an instrument adapted generally to the purposes of all evil-doers as such. When he by whom it is employed is a functionary, especially a Judicial functionary of the highest order, it is a case the evil receives an aggravation: and so does the turpitude of the evil-doer.

2. Debasement of the moral part of the mental frame of all those by whom application is made of it

3. Debasement of the intellectual part of the mental frame of all those upon whom the imposition passes, and by whom the lie uttered in place of a reason is accepted as constituting a reason, and that a sufficient one

4 The several particular evils operated by means of it. These will be determined by the several parts of the field to which application has been made of it

5. In general it may be stated as an instrument of arbitrary power: invented by functionaries invested with limited power for the purpose of breaking through the limits by which was intended to be circumscribed.
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