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Juries

Where confusion reigns, truth is indiscernible.
One of the most striking pleas in favour of trial
by Jury is contained in an observation p. 184. edit. of 1781of Mr
De Lolme's. "The consequence of this institution
"is that no man in England ever meets the man
"of whom he may say That man has a power
"to decide on my death or life.x" Look at it
once more a little closely it amounts vanishes<add>serves</add> to nothing.

1. In the first place it turns upon life and death.
it is an argument not inif it were any thing it would be so much in favour of
Juries as against capital punishment.

But it is nothing. By decidedoes he it
mean literallydecide, in the literaldecide in the station
of a Judge? The fact is directly and violently
against him. Much rather might he have said
nearer to the truth would it have been to have
said "thatNo man in England ever meets the
"man of whom he" might not"say that man
has power to decide on my death or life.Thus
how many thousands may a man in any public
line be odious to whom he does not know! Look
at my Judge, single, unconnected dependent on the people, and tied down
to truth and the law of thethe rigid law of duty by a thousand
bonds. Look even at the courtcivil - constituted Judge
or not of Judges do a thing act not in the dark acting in broad day: - then look

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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