[lxxxiv. 56]

1821 Decr 3

Codification Proposal

penult

?.5. Draughtsman Single

Lawyers interest begotten prejudice

The instance in which on the field of Constitutional law the evil inseparable from the use of the instrument has found some diminution © the [...?...?] inseparable from the use of it some excuse is that of the maxim /celebrated/ maxim The King can do no wrong. Taking advantage of the ambiguity attached to the two words ”can• and ”wrong• especially to the word ”can•, on /into/ a declaration of spotless and imaginary virtue they have they have stolen an /a scarcely efficient/ insinuation of [...?] impotence of impotence in his instance; and of responsibility to the purpose of exposure to punishment, in the instance of his instruments. 4 What the King has done can never be wrong, by his doing it that which in itself is wrong is converted into right. That which is wrong the King has not power to do: wherever wrong begins, there his power stops 3 If in the commission of any thing that is wrong the King has been a party though he himself is not punishable for it, some one else some servant of his in every case is.

The most opposite parties agree in to admitting of this production of absolute wisdom, because the most opposite parties each putting his own interpretation upon it, makes application of it to his own purpose.. Each swells and looks big, and in his own eyes and in the eyes of his dupes shews by the impunity [?] with which he employs the instrument the honor due to the inventor of it.

With or without her consent suppose the King to violate another mans wife. For this misdeed of the Master who is the servant that is to be punished? The Archbishop of Canterbury for instance or the Lord High Chancellor? This is among the question by which as yet no decision has been received

It remain what it has ever been an inexhaustible mine of controversy of endless and aimless [?] argument, and so will continue to be so, until with the rest of the flash language it is [...?] in that gulph of oblivion which awaits the whole mass of this [...?] part of the language.