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30 May 1808

The plan is difficulty: but this is but a pretence: interest
is not thus put by. Code must be useless a lawyer than
Public to

§. 4. 3. Third inseparable disadvantage – Want of appropriate
learning.

In proof Of the inseparability of this symptom of intellectual
infirmity in the constitution on the part of the class of Judges here in question
nothing surely need be said.

To this infirmity how treat presents still the
same necessary, still, though in none but the
the way of cure as in case of irresponsibility and danger of improbity only not prevention
in the way of prevention, efficacious remedy.

Besides In addition to this, to the particular symptom of
relative infirmity here in question, the nature of the things
case presents another remedy, and this of the preventive
kind – and that is giving to the rule of action a
real instead of an imaginary existence – conversion
of it out of the form shell of unwritten into that of written law.

Want of Deficiency in appropriate information – the intellectual infirmity here
in question – though it has its seat indeed in the class
of judges here in question, has its cause source in a very different
and much more elevated place spot: in the determinate
and well-considered omission forbearance maintained on the part of those
elevated classes from whom alone it is possible that the
sort of information thus necessary and thus unobtainable should
come. The ignorance of the non-lawyer is the element
of which the power of the lawyer is composed: and among
those in whom the the rendering of justice in this its primary and most
necessary form, by those on whom it depends, lawyers being
being unwilling, and non-lawyers neither over willing nor
in any degree able, the power of the man of law, including the
power of keeping all
the higher classes in a
state of mental blindness
and subjection, and all
inferior ones in a state
of oppression and pillage,
is a power seated upon as firm as rocks as power adverse hostile to public general interest and public happiness now found or could ever find to seat itself upon.

Identifier: | JB/035/207/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	207	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	10800
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