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[clx. 392] 1822 Oct. 23 Constitut
[clx. 392]

1822 Oct. 23

Constitut. Code

III. Rationale or II. Exposition

Ch.3. Constitutive

Publ. Opin. Tribunal

?. Public Opinion Tribunal - course to be taken for applying its controuling power.

\ZA\ This belongs likewise to Despotism dangerous to itself - Means of self-preservation in the proper hand

Course proper to be taken by the Public Opinion Tribunal, considered as a controuling power /authority/ to misrule and thence by every individual considered in his capacity of a member of it

Whatsoever moral considerations - notions of moral obligation - should lead /urge/ /engage/ /induce/ a man to abstain from acts injurious to individuals, or to the community in the aggregate, and to oppose himself to acts of the like nature /tendency/ on the part of other individuals, or of foreigners, considered in the character of enemies, should urge him to the like conduct as against the correspondent acts of misrule on the part of the government, and as against the form and system of government which gives birth to them: So much with regard to direction:- [...?] as to force and energy. In the case of the public wrong it ought to be to what it is in the case of the private wrong as the mischief done by the public wrong is to do by the private wrong. Apply this to honesty, generosity, courage etc
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