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1823. Sept. 14
Constitutional Code

Of he exercise habitually given to the power possessed by a body
so composed and so circumstanced as a Jury is the general one comprehensive
effect is, as above the weakening of infancy weakness into the force of the whole body
of the laws. To In those parts which have for their object the
defence of people rulers the ruling few thence of unavoidable of the subject
many against foreign incursion and resistible malefactors it
according therefore the weakness thus produced can not but lure and
accordingly has place. But so inconsiderable is the evil which
at this expence those external and resistible adversaries has it ever produce, is to it in their power to produce, that in comparison of the quantity of good
produced by the indirect weakening incessantly of that adverse fine which by any
direct and avowed means is irresistible – by this mode
which inadequate as it is is the only mode possible, that
of a power the effect of which in proportion as exercise is given
to it is to produce misdecision – to withhold execution and
effect from the laws is beneficial with reference to interest the people
for of that greater number whose the promotion of whose happiness
all those same laws ought to have had for their object sole object
but never had not only beneficial.

Not only is it beneficial, but to such a degree beneficent,
that it is to the exercise of this same anomalous
power more than to other all other causes put together that England stads morally if not indebted in a great
if no in an for the whatever excess of felicity she ever possessed over
that possessed by any other nation.

In a word, it is because the whole body of the laws taken
together is so bad that the Jury institution of a Jury

In a word it is because the law is so bad a thing, that
a Jury is so good a thing an one as it is.

But if the law were a good thing, a Jury would be a
nuisance.

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Date_1	1823-09-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	034	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	177	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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