JURISPRUDENCE AND LEGISLATION 635 



All this material ought to be collated and digested in the same 

 manner as is now done with judicial decisions, and the result should 

 be the construction of a body of principles of legislation to supple- 

 ment the existing body of principles of law. Both in its material 

 and in its method this branch of legal science must differ consid- 

 erably from the judicial jurisprudence with which we are most 

 familiar; but it is a department of our science equally legitimate 

 and valuable, and destined to grow in importance with the increas- 

 ing legislative activity of the modern state. 



