Abstract
My business in this state
Made me a looker-on here in Vienna,
Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble
Till it o'errun the stew: laws for all faults,
But faults so countenanc'd that the strong statutes
Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,
As much in mock as in mark.
Shakespeare
The greatest liberty of subjects, dependeth on the silence of the law.
Hobbes
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