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work_u6hptdchl5ftja4vpftl5irhp4	Emily Cock	PROPORTIONATE MAIMING: THE ORIGINS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON'S PROVISIONS FOR FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT IN BILL 64	2019	25	.pdf	application/pdf	12357	929	58	In , Thomas Jefferson proposed the use of nose-cutting to punish of Jefferson's attempt to rationalise the Virginian law code in line with eighteenth-century reform principles. Jefferson drew on British laws from the AngloSaxon period to the Coventry Act for his bill, but his proposals contrast strikingly crimes and punishments in the law codes Jefferson examined, and compares the by Jefferson in his proposed overhaul of capital offences in Virginian criminal law seem strange and anachronistic for a man thought preoccupied Kathryn Preyer, 'Two Enlightened Reformers of the Criminal Law: Thomas Jefferson which concealed contests of authority and justice. Scholars of colonialism have complicated the modernising narrative of crime and punishment by highlighting ways in which penal practices followed different became known as the Coventry Act. This formed the basis of all subsequent colonial disfigurement statutes, including Jefferson's revision. which met application of the Act and its capital punishment are commensurate with Jefferson's rescinding of the death penalty.	./cache/work_u6hptdchl5ftja4vpftl5irhp4.pdf	./txt/work_u6hptdchl5ftja4vpftl5irhp4.txt