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1. or 6. Prevention of aristocracy. This is the great
advantage attributed to it by Blackstone. His
encomiums on the institution are unbounded: and
when he comes to give the grou the sole ground
he builds them on is this supposed imagitud <add>imaginary</add> tendency. It is
altogether an imaginary one. Aristocracy is a vice
of the laws: what cure can a decision or a
constant habit of decision upon the question of fact,
though give by Angels, administer to a vice
in the laws? It has Judicature by Jury has not
kept out aristocracy: it is not in its power to keep
the body of the laws is stained and corrupted and deformed all over by that ugly vice (a) out that vice (or any other vice in the laws.
Impartiality is the Superior impartiality is the
quality he attributes to the this mode jury
of judicature: and it is in virtue of this quality
that it is to attribu be productive of so happy
an effect. If it really possessed in so eminent
a degree the property it is thus complimented with,
the effect of it instead of being what he supposes
would be exactly the reverse: the impartiality
is but a modification of integrity, probity integrity
uprightness: the more upright the tribunal judicature, the more
stricter, the more punctual the execution of the laws.the
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