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25 May 1808
Females should judge of females
He whoHe who in the arguments currently employed on the subject of long established institutions, especially
on the side favourable to them in favour of them should look for
anything like precision would seldom not often be successful.
Of the turn of the argument employed in proof
of the superior aptitude of a judicatory thus composed
for that part of the judicial function which consists in
the assessment of the quantity fixation of the quantity of money proper on each individual occasion to be administered
in the character of the matter of satisfaction compensation to satisfy
give satisfaction to the a party wronged in respect and in
consideration of the wrong sustained by him, the word
sympathy may serve to convey a general intimation. The A man sympa Naturally and without
effect a man sympathizes with a their one person of his own
a condition and rank of life coinciding with or bordering upon
his own.
Admitting, the for argument sake at any rate the
proposition, the indication it gives in favour of Juries
does not, when upon a nearer serving appear to be
very decisive.
The class rank from whence Jurymen, Common Jurymen
are taken is includes neither the best informed and most powerful
most opulent and on all those accounts taken together
the most respectable, nor yet the most populous numerous
to superior degree of sympathy for the feelings of any one class imparts,
an inferior degree of sympathy for the feelings of men in other
classes.
The class of common Jurymen is composed of peopled with middling and little
farmers, handicrafts being master-men, and retail middling and petty shop-keepers.
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