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Juries
Beaufry Jury is enormous . What man in his senses would
afford throw away two or three hundreds for nothing?
Who then are the men who would a
to whom the option would be useless : all men
who were in their senses , and who felt themselves
not guilty . Who are they who will accept it?
All men who are guilty , and that to such an
extent as to render it worth their while to purchase
at this enormous so enormous an expence a chance of for
at this partial and radically unfit tribunal
notorious market for rotten justice the chance
of impunity at so vast a price.
But the tribunal of quality of summary justice the tribunal
of the Commissioners though not made entered <add>set down in</add> the
form among the grounds for all giving the option of
the procedure by Jury is glanced at as it were in a parenthesis .
The Commissioners are appointed by the Crown
they are removeable at pleasure of the Crown , and
are dependent for their salaries on the very
against the interests of which he is supposed to have
offended : they are parties against the accused : how
shall he escape conviction? That these , as — well
as that any other Judges should be appointed by the
Crown , & allow is bad : that they should be removeable
at the pleasure of the Crown is still worse . all this &
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jeremy bentham |
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