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[clx. 357]
1822 July 14
Constitut. Code Rationale
Securities Counterforce
4. Legal Responsibility
5. Moral Responsibility
Evidence
This indirect mode of corruption by garbling is not altogether so mischievous as either of the two others. Of the matters kept from publication no such individual selection can be made as in the other case. Still however selection /separation/ in no small degree mischievous can be made and is made. For particulars and examples see the case of England.
As it is only by the power of government that this poisoning /corruption/ and this obstruction can be carried into effect, it is manifestly for the purpose of misrule, for the purpose of giving extension and perpetuity to misrule and thereby to human misery in all its shapes that enmity to mankind /war upon human /the/ happiness of mankind/ in both these shapes is on every occasion exercised /carried on/
But as nations are now [...?] information to any one nation is information to every other applying poison or obstruction to any one press is applying it to every other. Carrying on hostility in any one nation and thereby against that one nation is carrying on hostility against every other. It is still more extensively and effectively an act of hostility against all /the/ nations /of the earth/ than piracy is. For the mischief and terror produced by a pirate is confined to the seas on which his acts of piracy are exercised it is confined within the space of time, never a very long one during which those acts continue to be exercised. But the mischief produced by the suppression of information on the one side on the side of the victims of misrule while false and delusive information in support of misrule is let through may spread itself over all nations, and continue in all times.
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Title: [[clx. 358] 1822 July 14 Constitut]Description: [clx. 358] 1822 July 14 Constitut. Code Rationale Securities Counterforce 4. Legal Responsibility 5. Moral Responsibility Evidence If of such corruption and obstruction the practice is the practice of enmity to all mankind /the whole human species/ those who are partakers in it are they not enemies to the whole human species? To designate them by their individual names is /would be/ a task alike endless and dangerous. Not so the designating them by their official denominations /generic ones/
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Title: [[xxxviii. 27] 1822 July 15.]Description: [xxxviii. 27] 1822 July 15. Constitut. Code Rationale Securities 5 Moral Counterforce Public Opinion Tribunal Evidence and Comments 48. If at Statute Law, the subject of the prohibition has been described: thence, the case in which punishment will be applied. 49. By taxation may be produced in some sort the effect of corruption as well as of obstruction. By taxation, works that can not pay the tax stand prohibited: those that can and do permitted. Hence, the information is corruptly partial to the detriment of the comparatively poor: information that seeks to deceive them is poured in upon them: information that seeks to afford them useful instruction, is kept out of their sight. 50. Not quite so mischievous is this mode of corruption, as the two others: by a line thus drawn, mischievous and useful information can not be so compleatly separated to the purpose of pouring in the mischievous and keeping back the useful. 51. Only by rulers or with their aid, can these means of destroying the effect of this counterforce to their power be employed. In so far as they employ them, they make it evident that to maximize and perpetuate misrule, thence human misery in all shapes, are their endeavours directed. 52. Information to one nation being so to all, thus to maximize misrule and misery in one, is so to do in all the others. 53. More extensively hostile the Ruler who does thus │ │ is to the whole species, than a Pirate is: the mischief extends to all nations and all times. 54. Dangerous would it be to the indicater to indicate those enemies of mankind by their individual names: not so by their official do. ( Here give them)
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Title: [[clx. 352] 1822 July 14 Constitut]Description: [clx. 352] 1822 July 14 Constitut. Code Rationale Securities 5 Moral Responsibility Public Opinion Tribunal Evidence etc its necessity Of the channels through which, if at all information in both its shapes as above, must find its way to the public ear /eye/ and the public eye /ear/ beyond all comparison the most ample and efficient are those in the designation of which the collective term the press is commonly employed: and of these again the most ample and efficient are those for the designation of which the collective term the periodical press is employed. Every act by which the net mass of benefit derivable through these channels is lessened or endeavoured to be lessened is of the number of those by which the agent /actor/ is rendered as above the /an/ enemy to all mankind to all happiness to all virtue to all mankind. There are two modes by which this enmity has the capacity and is in the habit of exerting /exercising/ /exerting/ itself: the one is by corrupting /poisoning/ these same channels; the other is by lessening the aggregate calibre of them by blocking them up. The poisoning plan is carried on by keeping the information on one side suppressed, while passage to information on the other side is left free. In this mode it is by the setting of licensers over the press that the mischief is affected Under this mode again are comprized two specific modes: one consists in preventing as it were by physical means the issuing forth of the /such[?]/ obnoxious /apprehended/ information, the other consists in the punishing those by whom any such information has already been issued forth, and thereby /thus/ by intimidation preventing the issuing the like in future. The former mode is pursued by the establishment of a Censorial or Licensing Office; the other establishment of a system of judicial prosecution for the acts on which the denomination and to the agent the effects of criminality /crime/ are thus attached.
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