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1822 Sept¼r¼. 26. Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Sept¼r¼. 26. Tripoli. Securities against Misrule Preliminary Explanations

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Preliminary Explanations: or General and preliminary observations, shewing the

plan and means of execution of the here proposed system of ”Securities against

Misrule•.

Misrule is the general and all©comprehensive denomination, by which the evil

against which it is the endeavour of the here proposed arrangements to apply a

remedy, may be designated: not, however, to misrule in every shape is it in the

nature or in the hope of it to apply: at least in a direct and immediate way.

Not to misrule in any of those shapes in which it bears upon the members of the

community in an undistinguished mass: not for example to lavish expenditure, or

to unnecessary and therefore unjust war. To those cases alone has it any direct

and immediate application in which the evil comes home to the feelings of

particular and those determinate, and in each case assignable, individuals.

Before any thing is presented in the character of a remedy, the natural order of

the design requires that the several shapes in which the disorder is liable to

shew itself be brought to view.
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