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2 Juries
5 Alledged advan. that those very features in their description that
that the persons whose now thus placed out of impermanency gives them in this the
each of the former, are by their essential in this
respect have the advantage of the Judge [+] [+]are from the same causes which to they are by their deficiency in point of intelligence, exposed without defence help to the assaults action, influence of so many inbred causes of deviation from the path of restitude., are
from the most inferiority of their condition
and their want of education, subjected to the disadvantage
of being. beyond comparison more more exposed, and that inevitably incurably
without remedy, to the influence of so many inbred causes
of corruption reduction: or what amounts to the same thing.
The advantage, if they this circumstance gave them
any, over the Judge of once this or that established
system, would still be out of the question here.
The greater or less difficulty of getting a corruptive offer an invitation
to provaricate. convey'd to a Juryman can
give the probity of a Jury no sort of very little advantage in point of
probity over that of a Judge, who, whatever invitations
of this kind he might receive, would find it equally
impracticable and fruitless to comply with them.
We must not here forget the his dependence of the
Judge on the people, his oath that part of his
oath which concerns the making public every forbids his listening to or so much as
keeping undivulged any attempt of this kind, the extreme publicity of the
proceedings, and or the extreme facility of Appeal.
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jeremy bentham |
floyd & co |
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