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1823. Septr. 3.
Constitutional Code.

9.
Exhibited here, groupes
of features, four.
1. In Jury, apt; therefore
here retained.
2. In Jury, unapt; therefore
hence discarded.
3. Features in Jury where
situated, apt: not here:
therefore hence discarded.
4. Features, not in Jury:
here, because apt, inserted.

10.
I. Features in Jury apt,
and here inserted.
1. Generally-applying
end: bridling Judge.
2. Publicity, inseparable
from Jury suits: thence,
spread to others.
3. Task resulting to Judge,
giving reasons to gain
Jury: thence, obstacle to
decisions, for which
palpably absurd reasons
must be given, or none.
4. Causing evidence to be
exhibited in the best
shape, instead of the
other deceptive and expensive
shapes.

11.
II. Features in Jury unapt:
therefore hence discharded.
I. productive of evils opposite
to the direct end
of justice.
1. Locator, a functionary,
sharing in the same sinister
interest as the Judge,
thence Jury located, instead
of opponents to misdecision,
the supporters.


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12.
2. Solemn promise exacted,
on an an occasion on
which it is universally
known to be frequently,
habitually and necessarily
false: viz. to declare
an opinion whether able
or unable to form one.
Here, none; or none
but what is performable.

13.
3. Do. to declare no opinion
which is not a
man's own. Here, no
such promise.

14.
4. By bodily torture in
case of disagreement,
apart from 1. to 11, compelled
to declare agreemt.
with the remainder.
Here, no such compulsion.

15.
5. The religious sanction
employed in enforcing
these immoral and
continually and notoriously
violated obligations.
Here, religious sanction
not employed.

16. 17.
7. Sense of responsibility
to Public Opinion Tribunal
nearly destroyed
7. – further impaired by secresy
of their discussions.
Here, publicity: thence Judges moral responsibility
is entire.

16.
and Do. of weakened 6. Sense of responsibility weakened to
Public Opin. Tribunal weakened
by the magnitude
of their number.
Here, Judge is but one.


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18.
8. Legal responsibility
none.
Here, Judge's do. perfect:
unexampled in degree.
Quasi Jurors in case of self conscious .

19.
9. Efficiency, declared
in all cases, actual
to a great extent, of
decisions, pronounced
by men rendered by
inexperience so deficient
in intellectual
aptitude, and exposed
to be by corruption
divested of moral aptitude.
Here, Judge's intellectual
as well as moral
aptitude is maximized.

20.
10. Scantiness of the
application made of
these judicial bridles
in the field of all litigation.
suits Here, it is all-embracing.

21.
Scantiness of do. in
the field of each individual
suit. Here it
is virtually all-embracing.


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19.
9. In the hands of this
fraction of a Judicatorys
power over the result of
the suit, in the cases to
a vast extent, and thru'
the most important, absolute and irresistible.
For the use and necessity
of this power see Chap. III
Feature necessar indispensable, in parts,
inadmissible in Quasi-Jury.
Here, no such power; no
need of it.

Addend
Quasi Jury if
for such between
man and wife.
Males an inapt in
Judge: Females alone apt.


Identifier: | JB/034/045/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.

Date_1

1823-09-03

Marginal Summary Numbering

9-21

Box

034

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

045

Info in main headings field

constitutional code

Image

001

Titles

preliminary explanations

Category

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Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d2 / e2

Penner

jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

10319

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