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June 1811 June 28 + + X K ad Juperbriam
June 1811 June 28 + + X K ad Juperbriam

Fallacies Ch. 2 Posterity Chainers

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2. Exposure

Cases for application

1 Incorporate Union

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' 10. Cases favourable to the application of this device - 1. Incorporate Unions - continued.

The case of an incorporate union presents a most convenient opportunity for the perpetuation /confirmation/ of abuses. Then it is that a noble /particularly favourable field/ is opened for the activity of lawyers /there it is that/ Lawyers/ will in their day reap their share of the harvest, there is it that the hand of the lawyer is busily employed in the sowing of the seed

The /it[?]/ real use, and the only real case is, as already observed the tranquillizing the subjects /inhabitants/ of the minor kingdom /state/, by saving them from the apprehension of /being overloaded by/ seeing their interests sacrificed in an unequal degree to those of the major state: and for this purpose, as also observed the expressions used /employed/ can not /never/ be too general. /unless the subject of finance be an exception/

But on the part of the subjects of both states, and especially of the subjects of the minor state, fear and suspicion /apprehension/ of inconvenience in a variety of shapes naturally have place: more especially on the part of the subjects of the minor state, who see themselves on the point of passing out of the hands of a set of rulers /a set of hands/ whose imperfection whatsoever they may be, are at any rate known to them to whose imperfection /the amount of whose mismanagement/ a sort of limit has been marked out by experience into a set of hands to the probable amount of /possible and probable degree of/ mismanagement no determinate limit can be found.
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