1929. CRIME, Adequate punishment.—
Whereas, it frequently happens that wicked
and dissolute men, resigning themselves to
the dominion of inordinate passions, commit
violations on the lives, liberties and property
of others, and the secure enjoyment of these
having principally induced men to enter into
society, government would be defective in its
principal purpose, were it not to restrain such
criminal acts, by inflicting due punishments
on those who perpetrate them.—
Crimes Bill. Washington ed. i, 147.
Ford ed., ii, 203.
(1779)
