4 July 1811 1811 July 4 + + F 12 V. ad Juperbriam

Fallacies Fallacies 7 or 1 Ch.2 Posterity Chainers

' 6. Fallacy - how included in the attempt to nullify future laws.

Towards the producing of this effect whatsoever is done by the sovereignty itself by the /a/ sovereign legislature itself acting as such is indeed not an argument and therefore not a fallacy

Under the denomination of a fallacy (it must be admitted) nothing can with propriety be ranked, but what comes under the denomination of an argument. An act by which legislative power is exercised or endeavoured t be exercised, is not itself an argument, and therefore can not be itself a fallacy.

True: but on this occasion exists in which an argument and thence a fallacy may be raised in two cases /there are two cases on what ground/:

1. In the first place, if the state of thing thus attempted to be upholden /upheld/ is in itself, besides being an undesirable one, an impossible one, on this supposition /in this case/, even supposing the sovereignty in question to have done its utmost to establish /to give establishment to/ such a state of things, any argument by which the actual establishment of it is assumed, must in the eyes of /by/ every person to whom the assumed /supposed/ fact presents itself as an impossible one, be considered as fallacious.

In the next place, the fallaciousness of the argument will appear still more unequivocal, of so it be, that in express terms no endeavour of this sort has been employed by the legislature, and that by the argumentater it is only in the way of interference that /on the part of the legislator/ the existence of any such attempt is endeavoured to be established.