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1823. August 25
Constitutional Code
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4. Locator Requisition
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§ Features of Jury Trial here discarded.
1. Number of the actively serving 12, needless useless and attended with productive vexation
and expence inordinate and needless vexation and expence.
2. Number of the eventually serving and obligatorily attending 48 still more
vexation and expence.
3. Oath Formulary called an Oath useless and mischievous
binding men but in an indefinitely small proportion,
most apt to bind those who to in whose
surface restraints are least needful and least if at all
usefl, engaging by a appearance show of security
ungrounded confidence.
4. Forced declaration of in cases
where any doubt has place productive of the reality itself,
attended with perjury concealed from eyes without doors but
visible to their perjury is within doors: productive of but evil effects perjury on the part of producible
and frequently produced by the obstinacy of one: effects produced
no other than evil ones on any other supposition in any other supposition than that the laws are bad, and
so bad that in comparison of the obedience to them the notorious and continually repeted violation
of them is a problem blessing, the are of the few indispensable
but still more and more inefficient safeguards preservatives against unbridled
despotism.
5. Secrecy as to against toward all without doors,
as to within doors, the conduct of the individuals withdrawn
from the authority eye of the Public Opinion Tribunal in all
its magnitude and all its probity: open to the observation of none
but the few the limited number of others – the who in the
instance of each perjurer were with him and bound to
him by a community of guilt.
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