1822 Nov. 5

Tripoli. Securities against Misrule

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Preliminary Explanations

2. Sanctionment

The other consequence is - that amidst such a diversity and such a diversity, the Judge in so far as the union of disposition and opportunity produces on his part an inclination to corruption seldom finds any difficulty in gratifying it.

With regard to aptitude of diction /phraseology/ - aptitude of phraseology on the part of the rule of action, thence security and sense of security on the part of the members of the community, thus much may with confidence be asserted with reference to the best penned /most apt/ body of European law namely that in respect of determinateness of designation as well as aptitude with relation to the only proper end of legislation the greatest happiness of the greatest number they are in a deplorable degree deficient. Using /Continuing to use /apply// the words which custom has applied to the several occasions, on each occasion the assumption they proceed upon is that of the word in question the import is adequately determinate, and scarcely perhaps in a single instance is that assumption true.

If such is the case in the instance of those bodies of law the composers /authors/ of which in /during/ the penning of it set /kept/ before them all along a determinate object of pursuit namely the greatest happiness of somebody - the greatest happiness of the Monarch whose power was employed in giving birth to them and binding force still more assuredly must it be the case in the instance of which the rule of action has from time to time been spun out in the way of inference from a work which whatsoever may have been the talent employed in the writing of it was and is of a mixt character having something of religion in it something of law with here and there a passage of history