Obscuridade das Leis
Autor | Cesare Beccaria |
Páginas | 39-41 |
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Se é a interpretação das leis, a obscuridade é, evidente, outro mal que leva consigo, necessariamente, a interpretação e o será maior se as leis estiverem escritas em linguagem estranha ao povo, que o coloque sob a dependência de uns poucos, não podendo decidir por si qual será o destino de sua liber-dade, ou a de seus membros; numa linguagem que transforme um livro solene e público num quase particular e doméstico. Quanto maior for o número dos que entendam e tenham nas mãos o sagrado código das leis, menos frequentes serão os delitos, por não haver dúvida de que o desconhecimento e a incerteza das penas favorecem a eloquência das paixões. Que pensaremos dos homens se refletirmos que este é o costume inveterado de boa parte da culta e ilustrada Europa?
Uma consequência desta reflexão é que, sem a escritura, uma sociedade jamais conseguirá uma forma estável de governo, em que a força seja o efei-
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to do todo e não das partes, e em que as leis, as quais só devem ser modificadas pela vontade geral, não se corrompam ao passarem pelos inúmeros interesses privados. Fizeram-nos compreender a experiência e a razão que a probabilidade e a certeza das tradições humanas diminuem à medida que se afastam de sua fonte. Se não existisse um monumento estável do pacto social, como resistiriam as leis à força inevitável do pacto social, como resistiriam as leis às forças inevitáveis do tempo e das paixões?
Vemos por aí quão útil é a imprensa, que faz do público, e não somente de uns poucos, depositário das santas leis, e como ela dissipou o espírito tenebroso da cabala e das intrigas, o qual vai...
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- Dos delitos e das penas
- Advertência
- Dos Delitos e das Penas
- O Autor a Quem Ler
- Introdução
- Origem das Penas. Direito de Punir
- Consequências
- Da Interpretação das Leis
- Obscuridade das Leis
- Da Prisão
- Indícios e Formas de Juízos
- Das Testemunhas
- Acusações Secretas
- Perguntas Capciosas. Depoimentos
- Dos Juramentos
- Da Tortura
- Processos e Prescrição
- Tentativas, Cúmplices, Impunidade
- Da Suavidade das Penas
- A Pena de Morte
- Do Banimento e das Confiscações
- Da Desonra
- Da Publicidade e Presteza das Penas
- Da Certeza e Infalibilidade das Penas. Indulto
- Dos Asilos
- Do Uso de pôr a Cabeça a Prêmio
- Da Proporção entre os Crimes e as Penas
- Medida dos Crimes
- Divisão dos Crimes
- Crimes de Lesa-Majestade
- Crimes contra a Segurança do Particular, Violências
- Injúrias
- Os Duelos
- Furtos
- Contrabandos
- Dos Devedores
- A Tranquilidade Pública
- Da Ociosidade
- O Suicídio e os Emigrantes
- Crimes de Prova Difícil
- De uma Espécie Particular de Crimes
- Falsas Ideias de Utilidade
- O Espírito de Família
- O Fisco
- Dos Meios de Prevenir Crimes
- Conclusão
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