Elements of Jurisprudence : Being Selections From Dumont's Digest of the Works of Bentham
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We cannot assure the same rights or the same enjoyments to all; there are some necessary obligations which weigh more heavily on some than on others; and, again, obedience to the law is secured only by means of 28 ELEMENTS OF JURISPRUDENCE. penal sanctions, which constitute, if I may so express myself, the price paid by society in ex- change for general security. The first condition of the code, then, should be, that it should have for its end the general interest ; and if this condition has be...en satisfied in the poli- tical code, that is, in the code which establishes the difi^rent powers of the state, it will be easy to follow it up in all the other branches of legis- lation. The second condition, which I only glance at here, but to which I shall soon return, is integrality; that is to say, it ought to be complete, or, in other words, embrace all the legal obligations to which a citizen should be subjected. The third condition is imperfectly expressed by the word method, I mean by this, not only precision of language and clearness of style, but such an arrangement as would allow all those in- terested in it easily to acquire a knowledge of the law.
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