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1822 Aug. 9 Constitut. Code.
1822 Aug. 9

Constitut. Code.

1.

Fiction, what. Falsehood acknowledged, from and acted on as true.

2.

Properties of falsehood in this form 1. Never employed but to a bad thence in unjustifiable purpose. No man employs falsehood when truth will serve. 2. Capable of being employed to every bad purpose. 3. Never, but with bad effect. 4. Evidence conclusive of the mischievousness of the exercise of power supported by it. 5. So of the the inaptitude of the form of government. 6. So of moral depravity in the inventory. 7. So in the constituted employers. 8. So of intellectual weakness in the acquiescing nation.

3.

Inventors and employers — lawyers, viz. 1. Judges 2. Law writers.

4.

Persons to whose sinister interest sinister service has been rendered by it. 1. The inventors. 2. The monarch, whose removable creatures they were.

5.

The sinister service is 1. Particular; enabling the inventor in each instance to operate the injustice, of which it was made the instrument.

6.

2. General: contributory to encrease in the people the intellectual weakness, on which their obsequiousness to it depends. 2. Their demoralization, by causing them to attribute to their rulers the power of converting vice into virtue; and thus to entertain a propensity to the practice of it.
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