JB/035/071/004

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Juries
Blackstone

In the excursion to Sweden and all over the continent
I shall not attempt to follow him: it is not more
wide than it is vague and inconclusive.

It is therefore upon The conclusion is that it is every man's duty
.... to maintain besides "maintaining" this constitution
(he means institution or part of the constitution)
to restore it to its antient dignity, if at all
impaired by the different value of property, or
otherwise deviated from its institution: that
is to render a more aristocratical than it is
though not more than it was this only antidote to aristocracy,
for the raising of the nominal qualification
of jurors is what he evidently has in view.
or otherwise deviated from its institution. There we have to compleat the pile of vulgar errors
the old Machiavellian idea ripigliaro il stato.
The aura of perfection for a political institution is
the moment of its birth in a barbarous age: as rea
knowledge encreases and experience accumulates, &
amendments are made in it dictated by that knowledge
and that experience, it gets worse and
worse: and then all that the great point for bringing
it to perfection is to throw it back to what
it was at first.

Identifier: | JB/035/071/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10664
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