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Juries

When was it that the passion for Juries took
its rise? At the time when Judges were not only
the creations of the Crown, as now, but the absolute
slaves of the Crown, being removeable at pleasure.
Reasons grow fainter and fainter, weaker or die<add>dwindle</add> or vanish altogether:
but the popular affections that were grounded in them
take root in habit and prejudice and live for ever.
Every thing done to in aid of the probity of Judges
has been a deduction so much deducted struck off from the relative utility of
Juries. William 3d made them independent of
the King on the throne: George the 3d made them
independent of the Heir apparent. What William
or what George will change this nominal independence
which if were it real, would but be
another name for despotism, into the only the only true and absolute security for legitimate guardian of probity probity and
every other branch of public virtue, & perfect and legitimate dependence on the people? Whoever does so, will
have given the death-stroke to every thing that can has
offer itself in a shape of a reason any title to present itself in the character in favour defense
of Juries.














Identifier: | JB/035/017/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

035

Main Headings

constitutional code; evidence; procedure code

Folio number

017

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

note

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

3

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur young

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

10610

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