Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 1008917265

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-19129

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Author:: Flückiger, Otto http://d-nb.info/gnd/117736708

Title:: Die Schweiz

Edition:: Zweite Auflage

Place of publication:: Zürich

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Schultheß & Co.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 243 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Fremdenverkehr

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1785) Essays ’7 should be punished with death, not only as an equal punishment of the crime, but to prevent other mur- ders, does it follow that I must approve of inflicting the same punishment for a little invasion on my property by theft? If I am not myself so barbarous, so bloody-minded and revengeful, as to kill a fellow- creature for stealing from me fourteen shillings and threepence, how can I approve of a law that does it? Montesquieu, who was himself a judge, endeav- ors to impress other maxims. He must have known what humane judges feel on such occasions, and what the effects of those feelings; and, so far from thinking that severe and excessive punishments pre- vent crimes, he asserts, as quoted by our French writer, page 4, that— “L’atrocité des loix en empéche I'exécution. “Lorsque la peine est sans mesure, on est souvent obligé de lui préférer I'impunité. “La cause de tous les relachemens vient de Uimpu- nité des crimes, et non de la modération des peines.’’ = It is said by those who know Europe generally, that there are more thefts committed and punished annually in England than in all the other nations put together. If this be so, there must be a cause or causes for such depravity in your common people. May not one be the deficiency of justice and morality in your national government, manifested in your op- “The atrocity of laws prevents their being executed. “When the punishment is excessive, it is often found necessary to prefer impunity. “The cause of all the violations of the laws comes from the impunity of crimes, and not from the moderation of the penalties.” 2c

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