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1824 Feby. 6
Constitutional Code.

i.e. the professional sprung Judge. Chancellor the

But in the breast of the Judge it is that the intensity
of this vice stands is aimed to at the highest pitch: in this case
it is topped and covered or at least endeavoured to be covered crowned by hypocrisy. He pretends to a degree of sanctity
greater than any for which the Advocate has no need and to which accordingly
it is not usual customary for him to make any much pretension. Not
but that he too swells by and talks of duty – his duty. But
this duty of his it is his duty to his client employer: to all his
clients, all of them without distinction: to those whose aim is
injustice howsoever gross as well as to those who whose aim it is desire not anything
more than justice. But the fate of the suit not being
dependent upon him, he makes not any pretension to any such
high and absolute rigour.

For carrying into effect in the most compleat manner
the designs of those whose interest and consequent designs
are in diametrical opposition to the welfare of the vast majority
of the people, he is chosen at all times as being of all that can be
found the fittest for the most likely to carry into effect in the most compleat
degree those same designs.

In the power of the Advocate as such it would not be
to lessen in any degree the mass and depravity of the
system of law from the depravity of which he draws
his profit comes. But in the power of the Judge it is in incalculable
degree to lessen that same mass: to substitute
the truth to fiction sincerity to veracity to mendacity sincerity to insincerity to legalized oppression and depredation, justice and innocence
self-legalized depr oppression and depredation and oppression self-legalized. By no Judge was any ever made any the slightest
attempt of this sort that was not did not experience the
most extensive and conspicuous attention and respect.
Yet how rare and little less than unexampled all such
endeavours have been not to speak of the difficulty of recollecting
anything of the sort the state to which the law has been brought
by the exercise of their power and their universality and
indefatigableness of their exertions in singing the praises of it, sufficiently demonstrated.

Identifier: | JB/041/425/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 41.
Date_1	1824-02-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	041	Main Headings	Constitutional Code
Folio number	425	Info in main headings field	Constitutional Code
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