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Ob/ Juries
3 Another sort class of advantage attributed to this occasional
species sort of judges of judicature is that which is
supposed said to derive result from their occasionality this very circumstance of their
impermanency. If you have a bad jury today,
you may have a good one tomorrow.
This is always by comparison with the English
sort of Judge, or the Judge of some worse system
where he hears in secret, and is removable perhaps either absolutely irremov
at the will of some arbitrary policeman individual either absolutely
irremovable, or what perhaps is still worse, removable
at the only at the arbitrary pleasure
of some unaccountable individual.
Under the Judge of some countries, if he
happens to be bad, and the dark regimen the sort of discipline
under which he acts almost insures his
being so, there is may be no hope. Juries how bad soever,
may, it must be admitted, afford a less bad prospect,
than such a Judge. Pitiable indeed is
the case of the individual, who from private
collision of private interests or passions or even from
party affections is become obnoxious to such a Judge.
Such a Judge is a very night mare: an oppressor
not to be shaken oft times shuts the door against
hope. Under the worst sort of Jury, the chance individuals will
always
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