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Ch. 2. Leading Features.

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'.{2}/3/. {I. Wealth - 2.} Non Agenda.

1. Whatever is Sponte actum on the part of individuals falls thereby into the

class of Non Agenda on the part of Government. Coercion - the inseparable

accompaniment, precedent, concomitant, or subsequent, of every act of

government, is in itself an evil: to be any thing better than a pure evil, it

requires to be followed by some more than equivalent good. Spontaneous action

excludes it: action, on the part of Government, and by impulse from Government,

supposes it.

{2. Rule for judging of the utility of any measure of Government, in this line

or any other, for the execution of which money is required. Compare the expected

benefit of it with the mischief of the vexation, attached to the levying of the

sum in question by the most vexatious Tax: for, by giving up the projected

measure, the vexation from the Tax may be saved or done away.}