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stands
is exposed: and it is only by the greatest of abuses
that is or can ever be so. As often as you
use it in this capacity now perjury is the price you [must] pay for it:
and when you have got it got what you can
out of it in this way its value is next to none
it is worth next to nothing. it has been givenby
This quack-medicine treacherous or shallow lawyers as a [sovereign]
preservative of the liberties of the great body of
the people: as a sovereign antidote against aristocracy:
[against that very disease which
their labours are employd to entail upon
mankind.] It is trumpeted in this character
by Blackstone: by whom all its virtues and all its excellencies are
summed up [as if concentrated] in this one tendency.
— This a remedy against aristocracy?
mere -of-post, and so must every
thing the effects of which are confined to judication.
Aristocracy is a disease in the body of the laws:
to that part your remedy must apply itself you must apply your remedy
if you mean it should be effectual. + + In this way or any other is the body of your law corrupt and mischievous? Is
the trial by Jury an instrument of good judicature?
the more perfect you make your it makes the judications, the more
perfectly mischievous your it makes the law. + + end and This use of a system of judicature is to give efficacy to the laws: its as a system of judicature is as in proportion to its subserviency to that end. The better your
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