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 | | As a lawgiver, so far as any thing on the part of subjects is concerned, he must be satisfied either with their obedience or disobedience. |
 | | And the reason is, that the act of transgression is a declaration and a proof that the lawgiver, his law, and authority, are unworthy of regard. |
 | | It is an act of the lawgiver designed, not to reform the subject and bring him to honor the law, not to retrieve all the evils of transgression and so to be an equivalent for the happiness it has destroyed, but to prevent simply one of the evils of transgression, viz., the subversion of law. |
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