JB/035/017/001

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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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