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1824. March 27 + + +
Constitutional Code. Copd
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Ch. XI. Judiciary collectively
§. Justice to the poorest
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§. Justice to the poorest
Art. 1. Expence, in a pecuniary, or what comes
to the same thing, in a quasi-pecuniary shape is
on every occasion, as on the one side of the suit, so on the other, or with indispensably necessary to the ad
obtainment of judicial service: expence and of this expence,
of justice: so
on the part of those by whom him thus in whose instance the disbursement of it is
involuntary, evil is, an attendant on it in a proportionable degree an inseparable
accompaniment.
In some instances, the so small indeed is the evil necessarily attends attached
indeed, if no expence over and above what is necessary
or so small that act of authority considered
so small is the amount of it that, no exertion on the
part of the legislator would be capable of advantageously
employed in the endeavour to put shut the door against exclude or
exclude or of compensate it : and this quantity small
and in this shape will be
may perhaps be found the quantity of it in for the greatest number
of : in those cases of instances individual instances: and thus the only necessary will be that
of preventing it from receiving of avoiding to cause or permitt to receive factitious encreases.
But, on the other hand, neither are instances cases wanting in which no determinate
But in other instances assignably limits can
limits can be set to the amount magnitude of it. There are no limits except
those set by the earth's circumference to the distance that may have
place between the abode of the a necessary witness and the place at which his testimony may meet
with greatest propriety be
delivered: nor yet scarcely even to the
numbers of witnesses
whose testimony may be material: and as it with distance — in place of it so it with quantity of time, and [+]
[+] a quantity of compensation money
that may be necessary to
adequate compensation for it
Art. 2. As to the
of which without unless aptly obtained by law the care
of the Legislator, produced by it [+]
[+] except in so far as it
is by the
pages of the Public
Opinion
the effect of it is to
constitute
of a graduated system of depredation and oppression
a graduated system, of depredation, and oppression in the ways
all other shapes, each superior rank exercising a tyrannical
dominion over every other inferior to it in the scale
of opulence.
ability to defray the expence quantum of expence necessary to support in the
(2)
To provide for the exclusion of tyranny, thus exercisable
by means of superiority of opulence, belongs to the Constitutional
Code, with an importance propriety no less unquestionably p necessity
than the to provide for the exclusion of tyranny the same damage dominion when exercised by
means of superiority of legal power.
(1)
Art. 2. As to the evil, where in every case in which in so far the expence
necessary as above to the formation of the ground support of a just demand as a just
defence is wanting, it consists of every evil which a man is
exposed to by the want of the protection of the law: by it the whole population of the
country is placed under
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