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Juries
3. Innate Defects The weakness and uncertainty which these
sinister principles intail upon the administration
of justice are diseases which rage with
peculiar violence in the Jury system , and which
in that system alone can are scarcily susceptible do not ad are incurable.
of a cure. In this respect , the case of a permanent and responsible
magistrate sitting and acting in broad-
day-light the cure possesses every advantage .
On the one hand, the The habit is not so prone to the disease : and on the other,
the remedy is sure . Whatever Whatever prejudices
his situation exposes him to ,
you may make him abjure them upon his entrance
into office : this is one use , and that
no unimportant one, that may be made of
an official oath . Official instructions will
with this preservative and aid its efficacy :
and to compleat it there remains the
obligation of giving reasons in public and shewing
proving making it appear against all allegations to the contrary,
that the instructions have been observed : not
forgetting the right of appeal , which corroborates
and crowns compleats the whole. These antidotes against
ignorance and despotism are in part scarcily applicable
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jeremy bentham |
floyd & co |
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