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for him to advance make a falshood false assertion boldly about
a matter which he and his collegues alone are to
supposed to understand than about a matter which
every body is supposed to understand as well as he?
Juries are to be intrusted with the question of the font in preference
because it is the only that and that only is the<add>one of the two</add> question if they understand:
and yet that is the one of the two about which it
men are most easily imposed upon is most easy to impose upon men for any body to impose upon another them
by both assertions as well as by artificial assertions
stretchings warpings and distinguishings.
which is the safest and the easiest? for a Judge to impose in
this manner upon a for the moment on the spot in the heat
of the debate trial upon twelve ignorant and inexperienced
men or upon all the most discerning
men in the nation with the trial before them
sitting to peruse it at full their leisure?
"Thus therefore a competent number of sensible and upright jurymen, chosen by lot from
among those of the middle rank, will be found
the best investigators of truth, and the surest
guardians of public justice." Here we have
the old womanish begging of the question so characteristic
of the reasoning, if such it is to be
called of Blackstone — Jurymen are of service to be
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