4 July 1810

Fallacies Ch. | | Prosperity

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2. Exposure

2. / 2 or 3/ If it were right that in relation to any one part of the field of legislation the sovereign for the time being should consider his hands tied and himself pro tanto devested of his power and dethroned by the acts of some predecessor who could not know what he was /it was/ doing, so would it is relation to any other and every other part of that same field: and the power thus granted to each legislator could not[?] be denied to any one.

One consequence would be that it would be right that every legislator should make laws for future time, no legislator make any time for his own time

Another consequence could be that should it enter into the head of any legislator to enact that a law forbidding all other legislators /succeeding sovereigns/ from doing any act in exercise of the power of legislation this would also be right: it would be right for such legislator to issue /deliver/ the prohibition: it would be right for all future legislators to conform to it /pay obedience/.