JB/034/153/001

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1823 Septr 4
Constitutional Code

Pub. Op. Trib. – Sector – Number always of such other
except in case of general or , this ,

That In those cases in which not so much the continuance of
the government in its present form and usage habits without
is that by would be by impunity or the security
of individuals in respect of person and property, at the same
time that as in the instance of a death the punishment is such
as in your eyes is unapt the continuance of it being no
other cause than the indifference of rulers to the public welfare
are in those cases be the defendant ever so clearly guilt per
let your verdict be a verdict of acquittal. Of the practice
and of the success of it the example was before your eyes.

But Remains in your hands one means of
and than an all comprehensive one to the class offences
above described are many which by which though punished
as if they were so many violations of law no law is really violated.
These are all those offences acts for the punishment of which no
warrant is alledged in the shape of any law made by the legislature
but that which is pretended to have been made
by what is called Common Law: a the sort of fictitious law
of the of which has no existing any anywhere

but is on each occasion made b for the reason is made
by some Judge or Judges made in pretence of declaring the
terms of a law while by those who alone have authority to
made a law or say they already made like in
if the a verdict of Guilty called for at your hands the
is the Judge to produce where has to ask them what
law? take upon them to produce a claim in the book
they entry to be to produce there a passage in which
written by some individual this or that who by
power to make his law under the passage a
on the subject of what be is or ought to be law – let him
that this is no law the use of those
no
be the of a
had in any authority
to make law and what
is the law so
one can be guilty
without being called
to some
law, there is so its
legal guilt in the case and you will not be contributing a verdict – in which the existence of guilt asserted.

Identifier: | JB/034/153/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.
Date_1	1823-09-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	85-86
Box	034	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	153	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c9 / c7 / d26 / e7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	10427
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