Note 30 — III.—LAWS FOR REPRESSION.

In the United States the Constitution thus establishes the principle of responsibility:—“The president, vice-president, and all civil functionaries, shall be liable to be turned out of their places if, after being accused, they are convicted of treason, the waste of public money, or other offences, and of libertinism.” In the same way, every elector, before voting, must give proof of his morality. The Prussian laws sentence the pander who allures women, even those above age, by artifice, to ten years’ hard labour, and have him flogged when he is sent to, and when discharged from, prison. They deprive fathers, mothers, masters, patrons, tutors, &c., of their rights, if they abuse, merely by licentious words, those placed in their care. Russia whips debauchees with the knout. Spain has partly kept up her old laws, which were severe only on the purveyors of profligacy and the frequenters of places of infamy, by declaring that “The shame proceeds from him who pays for debauchery, and not from her who sells it and receives its price.” Public prostitutes there, who engage maid-servants under 40, are sentenced to one year’s transportation, and a fine of 2000 marvedi, &c.