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of rules by leading their understandings captive for defrauding defrauding them of the
means of judging.
Yet even the praise of simplicity has been
thrown in to fill up the measure of its merits! praises!
Such are the absurdities the best heads are liable
to fall into when prejudice is permitted to
do the business of reflection. later the work of reflection off its hand! Sin Simplicity
the result of all this additional mass of
regulation and law-learning? Just as well might
it be said that twelve occasional Judges added
to the one permanent one makes the number of
Judges less than it would have been otherwise.
Add this system of regulations Take a code of procedure
as framed without a view of to Juries, and
then add the system of regulations requisite for the introduction
of Juries, how much think you of the
original system would this additionment allow you
to strike off? Not a single syllable. Whatever
concerns Juries is just so much more than there
would be occasion for otherwise without it.
But may not instances be used under this system where final
causes have been gone through in a very short space
of time, within the compass for example of a single
day? I dare believe it. But how this expedition in
In here and there an instance circumstances now and then have concurred
to allow of this measure degree of dispatch. But has the Jury
it in any degree been promoted by
system been in any respect at all the cause of it? On the contrary
instead of promoting it has been impeded necessarily retarded it.
Had the business been done by a Judge without a Jury,
what can be more evident than that instead of taking up so
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