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Now dismiss Juries, and put my Judges
single Judge in their place. The author of a
political publication is presented before him
and convicted. Roused by the provocation,
and there can not be a greater the people
merit, and depose him avowedly for this cause. What
Judge after this will dare to invade the liberty
of the people?

But is not your Judge sworn, and
that in the strictest manner to pay obedience
to the law?
He is so: but to what law? to
a law that exists. and I have shewn that on
this head no such thing as a law exists or can possibly exist, until a general law is made.
But suppose a general law made— Suppose the
legislature wrought up to such a pitch of blindness
in profligacy as to give words a form to the extravagancies
that have been floating in the minds for this century and a half
of lawyers English Judges and turn it into a law. What is
the consequence? Can liberty then be preserved to upon your plan now
the press without perjury? Very bad <add>I confess in any case, but that of the retractation of the law.</add> Perjury I am sorry
to say it or else the utter
or an interregnum of in
justice for want of a Judge, or the utter destruction
of the liberty of the press. Let perjury be the result

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Identifier: | JB/035/087/001
"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

087

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

[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

10680

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