JB/035/083/001

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The right of sitting in judgment on the
conduct of public men is a right without
which nothing that can be called constitutional
liberty can any where have existence any where. Take
it away and by this single act you establish
a perfect despotism. Election of legislators, election
of judges, election of any sorts of officers whatsoever, or
of all sorts of officers, elections of what kind
so far and to what degree soever popular, are
without this but a mere mockery: they are precisely
what judicature would be under a Judge
who should forbid the production of all argument
and all evidence. To say that the conduct
of men who are to be candidates for public
trusts shall be at the nomination of the people
or dependent for their continuance in office on
those who are at the nomination of the people, and
yet shall not be subject to the examination and
censure of the people, of any one and every one
of the people who shall deem it worth his while to enter upon initiate such examination and pass such censure, is
to compel men in their electoral capacity to give
themselves up solely to the guidance of caprice,
to forbid prohibit them from having any intercourse with reason.requisite

Identifier: | JB/035/083/001 "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	083	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	floyd & co
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10676
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