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The following circumstances, how minute soever some whatever stress may have
of them may have been rested on been laid on some of them daily by panegyrists, nor
are all of them ineffectual, and some of them highly
mischievous.

The first of them I shall mention is that of the nomination of
the members of this tribunal by the Sheriff, himself
an officer in the nomination of the Crown and
accountable to the Crown. If it had ever been a custom
among lawyers to take obvious reason utility for the
standard of excellence in in preference to the usage
of barbarous ages it must have occurred before
now that Chance Fortune the hand of Chance was must
be a much fitter one to vest lodge this power, than
that of a nominee of the King or any body else.
In divers several <add>a few narrow </del></add> instances the decision of chance has been resorted
to by late reformers: and the persons whose
appearance upon the list is the result of such a lottery are not the
less a Jury.(a)

(a) Examples 1. Special Juries as modelled by State
2. Parliamentary Election Court as established by
community called the Grenville Act
3. Tribunal for trying East-India delinquents.
These two last Courts have not the name of Juries,
but they have what is much better than the name.

Identifier: | JB/035/052/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	052	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10645
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