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The Monikins

CHAPTER XX
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You are, in this case, the judges of the law and the fact; but it is a part of my functions to inform you what they both are.
By the law, the king is supposed to have no faculties.

The inference drawn by counsel, that, not being capable of erring, the king must have the highest possible moral attributes, and consequently a memory, is unsound.

The constitution says his majesty CAN do no wrong.

This inability may proceed from a variety of causes.

If he can do NOTHING, for instance, he can do no wrong.


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