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1824. April 17 Aug. 1
Constitutional Code. Ch. XXI Law Practitioners
§.

Ind Unpalatable as it may be to them to
it is applied, no substantial ground can possibly be found for taxing
it with injustice or impropriety. If it be time of a day-labourer
that he is hired – that is that his service is hired,
of the sort of lawyer in question it is no less so. Not but that
a distinction has place between the two cases has place; but it
is to the advantage of the man of law. The day-labourer,
in the ordinary course of his profession, is not employed
in work by which the community happiness is not benefited
concerned: he is not employed never is he employed, in the endeavour to
give giving success to the enterprizes of a aiding the a wrongdoer in his enterprizes, or in saving
him fro from the punishment the infliction of which has been rendered
beneficial to society by his crimes. Another difference
indeed there is between the two professions cases: and that consists in
no quantity of the money included in the hire by which in the two cases the hire
is effected includes in the two cases: in the case of the ordinary day-labourer
it is uniformly the least that can be given: in the case of
labourers it is a minimum: in that of the lawyer a maximum.
But by this latter distinction circumstance the hostility of the
interest and practice of the erudite labourer to the universal interest is encreased: for the greater
his emolument, the greater more intense is the affliction and the greater
the number of those, by whose loss the profit is in this case
constituted.

True it is, that, besides being employed in the
endeavour to give success to the enterprizes of a wrongdoer, and or
saving him from condign punishment he is also employed
in endeavouring the endeavour to obtain fro for the injured compensation
and for the public the benefit of the example afforded
by punishment at the charge of the wrongdoer. But whether
it be be in the one way or the other is in every instance matter of chance, and
to him it would might be seem, would therefore naturally a be matter of indifference. But in a nearer view it will to speak more correctly
be seen that in favour it is on the side of the wrongdoer that the bias of his affections
will naturally have place: be sure to lean: for the clearer a mans right
is, the less is the need he has of this such support: and the more atrocious a
man's criminality is,
the greater is his need
of it, and the higher
is the reward which he
will see may will naturally
be looked for in return for it: as well as and what is more the higher his professional reputation, cannot source and of an indefinite long and wide current of ulterior reward. reward.

⊞ Accordingly of the two
parts which the Law
Practitioner is with equal
constancy employed in
acting this is the only
one which on the occasion
of the land he is continually
poured forth in
the profession is ever
brought to view.

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Date_1	1824-08-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	7
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