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Regular false distinction of unanimity by one person
Meantime it must be confessed,that howsoever in many of This it is that if in those as yet untried instances
the utility of it may be unquestionable, the
necessity — the need of it may not be be found to stand altogether so clear
of dispute.
In many of those instances to produce mendacity
in any quantity that can be desired, torture
is the less necessary, the more easily and pleasantly
it is the acceptable desired result is produced by the operation of other causes.
The weight of any opinion it is sufficiently understood —
the weight of any opinion, that is the influence degree of force with
which it acts in the opinion of people without doors,
is naturally proportioned to the number that is to the proportional number of those who
join in it.
This being considered, there can be little need of
torture to produce the desirable portion of mendacity
whatsoever that be, as any company of Judges: especially
of fic-sid Judges, possessing an interest of their own
in a state of diametrical opposition to the interest of the
people and the ends of justice.
The influence of each being derived from and proportioned
to the influence of the invisible body of which he
is a member, to raise that corporate influence to its
desirable maximum, it is seldom indeed that any deficiency want
in the requisite quantum emphasis of generosity, candour, and self-sacrifice is experienced.
Accordingly Under the impression it is seldom that without a certain degree
of passion in the shape of ill humour, in so discreet a body
any declared difference of opinion can have place: the phaenomenon can can not have place but when the force of attraction produced by the sense of the common subject has been surmounted by a pretending principle of , brought with action by the species of formulation above mentioned.
Identifier: | JB/035/314/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
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constitutional code; evidence; procedure code |
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jury trial |
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jeremy bentham |
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