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Juries Innate Defects 17 Two prejudices and ignorances to the influence of which they are particularly in the habit of On Two points things, as matters stand at present, you
can never get a Jury to be persuaded of comprehend understand. Fr. p. 18. 34. All concern foras for the innocent man who is out of sight is lost in compassion for the guilty man criminal they see. Hence so many house breakers and highway men are let off one day in order to return the next day to their trade. One
is the mischief of, and in consequence the propriety
of convicting for, and offence of a purely public nature, and against which they have
no particular and an offence from
whence no individual more than another receives
any special injury, and against which they have no particular antipathy. The other is the importance
which the certainty of punishment is of to the
prevention of the offence. How should you? when
the writers whose profession it is to instruct their ignorance their
show no greater regard to reason.

If there is any difficulty, this is the essence This insensibility to the necessity impression of due execution of the law would not have the influence it has or thus practice conduct 18 Which however would not have the effect of the live of not them be themselves up above the law This weakness blindness would be a misfortune without consequence in practice, if
This would signify nothing if habit
by one means or other they had not got into the habit of
consequence and even inconsequent had not concurred in fixing them in the practice of considering considering themselves in criminal matters looking
themselves as masters of the law. especially, as masters of the law: I do not mean interpreters upon the very
letter of the forms under which they act declares them so, but
masters. This persuasion taken up, the love of power
comes in, and joins its force to that of
all the other principles opposite to inimical to
Justice. Clemency is an the attribute of a sovereign
and of a God. How different to What wonder if the probity of a little shopkeeper mechanic the tradesman
or petty or shopkeeper or mechanic can find in his heart should not be able to turn away proof against the charms
in such fine things of royal and divinity, when they
are to be bought at so cheap a rate? In the heart of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	17
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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