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1823. Oct.r. 18
Constitutional Code. 2 Enactive Part.
Ch. Quasi Jury
§.
As to the current system system established and in particular that
which not altogether without reason as commonly regarded on the lease
bad of them namely the English a truth that ought never to be
for a moment out of sight is - that they never have had
could have had for this actual objects or ends in view those which because in that branch as
in every other the good of
the ruling few and not
that of the subject may
the good of the ruling
few at the expence of
greatly preponderant
evil on the partside of the
subject may has of
course, and from the
unchangeable nature
of man been the one
in every case pursued
on as far as mable
have have been so often brought to run under the appellation of the
ends meaning the right and proper ends of judicature. but on
the contrary they have had for one of their ends the production of
pecuniary expence for the sake of the profit extractible not of the
expence, and the production of misdecision, in so far as from such misdecision
benefit in any shape could be extracted for themselves now could be made to operate to their own advantage
these other functionaries with whose sinister interest there are ever in
confederacy and alliance: that in a word thedepredation and
oppression exercised upon all but these for this one benefit
and that of their confederates were have always been the real
and ultimate object in view depredation depredation for the
sale of the immediate profitbenefit in a tangible shape and oppression
at large partly for the purpose of security against resistance.
partly for the sake of the profit capable of being gleaned by it
in an endless variety of less important shapes
Of this determination to work injustice the reality
and all comprehensiveness of this system of determinate and
elaborate injustice, in short proof there is and that of itself a
conclusive one: and that is the case taken to prevent the parties
from ing meeting together at the outset of the case suit in the
presence of the Judges: for by that most manifest case in incontrovertible dictate of
justice such now drawn out to the length of years
might in acrimonious instance be furnished ented now
to universal satisfaction in to as many minutes.
Another is the practice of extending denial made of the protection of the service
of the law Judge to all who but those who and will purchase it
by the payment of an enormous mass of taxation. This circumstance
which of itself sufficient to constitute the government a tyranny
of the rich over the power, of the few over the many
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