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4 Juries

Beaufry I allow the honourable gentleman and only fear
has not allowing it me . It is bad , not that the
persons entrusted with the collection of the Revenue
should be nominated by the Crown , but that this
office of finance should proportionatly be coupled
with judicature . Another argument I will help
to against this tribunal : that the tribunals
of which a Jury forms a part have a public to
guard their probity , and this by — tribunal none.
Thus it stands upon principle : which says experience ?
With all these such gross and palpable faults is the
administration of justice then administered less
important than that administered by Juries ? It is
most notoriously and beyond all comparison more
so. Was the most corrupt tribunal of the prominent
kind ever charged with half the one partiality
which on in this as will as so many other heads branches
of law is so notorious on the part of Juries ? Who
ever heard of an unjust conviction given by Commissioners
of Excise ? if yet such a thing had been but
suspected is it possible that the whole metropolis town and
the whole notion would not have wrung with it?
How happens this ? in the first plan because they
have no temptation either of interest or prejudice to
act otherwise than justly : in the next plan , because
having their conduct to be the object of
suspicion they put a guard upon it accordingly.
I say repeat it : they have no temptation to



Identifier: | JB/035/074/004
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

035

Main Headings

constitutional code; evidence; procedure code

Folio number

074

Info in main headings field

Image

004

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / d2 / d3 / d4

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

10667

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