The law not only regards life and member, and protects
every man in the enjoyment of them, but also furnishes
him with every thing necessary for their support. For
there is no man so indigent or wretched, but he may demand
a supply sufficient for all the necessities of life, from
the more opulent part of the community, by means of the
several statutes enacted for the relief of the poor, of which
in their proper places. A humane provision; yet, though
dictated by the principles of society, discountenanced by
the Roman laws. For the edicts of the emperor Constantine,
commanding the public to maintain the children of
those who were unable to provide for them, in order to
prevent the murder and exposure of infants, an institution
founded on the same principle as our foundling hospitals,
though comprized in the Theodosian code, were rejected
in Justinian's collection.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIXs1.html
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