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1822 Jany 16

Codification Offer

?.5 Admission Universal

Necessarily included in the possession of power is impunity - impunity in respect /on the score/ of the exercise of it: impunity in respect of all sufferings imposed on the people by the acts done for procuring in the abovementioned shapes enjoyment and the instruments of it to the rulers: impunity in respect of laws enacted /established/ for the purpose of the sinister sacrifice: impunity in respect of acts done for the same purpose in violation of the then existing laws: exemption from /security against/ punishment and exemption from /security against/ reproach.

On any person bearing part in the production of suffering thus produced by misrule reproach may be cast in either of two /any one of three/ ways: viz

1. By giving indication /affording information/ to the public of the evil-producing /pernicious/ act.

2. By giving the like information with relation to the persons concerned in the commission of it /production of the mischief/

3. By bringing to view the mischiefs resulting from it

4 By exciting by means of general expressions of disapprobation the disapprobation and resentment of the people in relation to the persons concerned in it

By these several means any /all/ such functionaries as in respect of the acts done by them in the exercise of their functions stand exposed to /are by the laws made subject to eventual/ punishment may be exposed not only to reproach but to punishment

On this account it will of course be a /the/ perpetual object with /endeavour/ of both parties in this partnership to prevent /oppose an insuperable bar/ by every means in their power to preserve themselves all such information and all such reproach

Such information may be divulgated and such reproach cast either by oral or by written discourse

The time at which the means employed for the prevention of such divulgation /indication/ and such reproach is either antecedent to the utterance of it or subsequent to the exercise of the obnoxious act

Applied antecedently these means of prevention are preventive compleatly and effectively preventive: not applied except subsequently, they are incompleatly and uncertainly preventive: to what /whatever/ is past they have no application, and as applied to the future they are comparatively inefficient, the effect of them being subject to all the uncertainties that attach upon discovery, prosecution conviction sentence and execution