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1 An Enquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments upon Criminals, and upon Society 1 (1787)

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AN


ENQUI


RY


          INTO  THE EFFECTS OF



PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS


     UPON CRIMINALS,


                  AND


         UPON SOCIETY.


READ IN THF sOCIETY FOR PROMOTING rOLITICAL EN 7j1RIES,

      CONVENED AT THE HOUSE OF HIS EXCELLENCY

           BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, EsqZUIRE, IN

       PHILADELPHIA,         MARCH  9th, 1787.



   Accuftomed to look up to chofe Nations from whom we have derived
 our Origin, for our Laws, our Opinions, and our Manners; we have re-
 tained, with undiflinguiihing Reverence, their Errors, with their Improve-
 ments; have blended, with our Public Inflitutions, the Policy of dilimilar
 Countries ; and have grafted, on an Infant Commonwealth, the Manners
  of ancient and corrupted Monarchies.  Preface to Laws of the Socic:y
For Political Enquiries.



          P  H I L  A D  E L  P H  I A:
PRINTED  DY  JOSEPH  JAMES, IN CHESNUT-STREET.
                   Z.DCC.LXXXV1I.

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