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1824. August 2
Constitutional Code. Ch. XXI Law Practitioners
§.

Art. 13. Whatever estimation you attach to the whole class you attach to the most as well
as to the least dishonest. By means of this estimation possessed by both, the evil which the
least dishonest will not lend himself to, the most dishonest will lend himself to: thus it is
that by every degree of estimation possessed by this class the community can not but be a
sufferer: by every degree taken from it, a gainer. A man who has no mischievous design
in his head, what harm can it do him to be watched?

In a Monarchy it is by those who stand be whom service and
interests together prejudice be because intimidation and corruption have potence has placed them highest
in power, delusion has placed highest in estimation it is
his and in whom by those whom the delusion has blinded
the greatest confidence is rest reposed, it is⊞ ⊞ by those who stand highest not by those who stand lowest in reputation by these departures by them, and
it is by in the Chief Justice, the Chancellor, the Commander in Chief – the King
and not by the thief, the robber or even the assassin that the most
mischief is done that mischief upon the largest scale – mischief
in greatest quantity – is done. A King though he possessed
even in the utmost imaginable perfection every virtue with which adulation
was here would by his every existence be the most
mischievous of all nuisances.

As to the class in question after when every thing that has
been done towards for lessening the mischief which it is in their power
to do, whether by lessening their reputation or by any other means
imaginable they will always have it in their power to do and
find a profit in doing, and will accordingly always be doing
mischief in a vast quantity: and the mischief whosoever labours
to heighten their reputation, labours to augment.

After every thing that can be done to tie his hands Vast is the quantity in which the men of this class Law practitioner will to
his own profit be able to do wrong in perfect safety he will therefore for the most part be sure to do it. With his hands tied as in
this Code the hands of a Judge will be seen to be, while on every occasion they are
free to do good right in every shape he is on no occasion will he
be able to do wrong but under such peril as few if any
will prevent upon themselves to encounter. In the United
States no Finance Minister on entrance into office sees any the
least prospect of being able to committ peculation with impunity,
he therefore never therefore does he attempt it: never does he so
much as think of it: so, as to injustice in every shape will it
under this Code be with a Judge.

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