A professor and I are looking for a quotation from Jeremy Bentham that
Dean Griswold did not provide a citation for. I will quote the full
sentence in which the quotation appears: "Until some such measure is
adopted, it may well be said that our government is not wholly free from
Bentham's censure of the tyrant who punishes men 'for disobedience to
laws or orders which he had kept them from the knowledge of.'" The
quotation appears in Government in Ignorance of the Law - A Plea for
Better Publication of Executive Legislation in 48 Harv. L. Rev. 198, at
213 (1934).
I could not find the quotation in a case, quotation book, the Past
Masters database and the Bentham Project Web pages at University College
London. At the latter site I did a find search on numerous documents
including:
* The Essay on the Promulgation of Laws
* A Fragment on Government that is an introduction to Blackstone's
commentaries
* <http://www.la.utexas.edu/labyrinth/ipml/index.html>
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
*
<http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/poltheory/bentham/pcc/index.html> The
Principles of the Civil Code
Thank you
Barbara Brandon
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