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1824. August 8 1825. Jany. 9. +
Constitutional Code. Copied and the Copy revised and this corrected 5 July 1825

Ch. XII, Judiciary § Justice for the
Ch. Justice Advocates of the Helpless
Ch. XII, Judiciary collectively
§.22. Justice for the Helpless

Quere. Shall the §. Justice for the Helpless remain where it is
or to amend a Ch. Defender of the Helpless?

Chapter XII. §. Justice for the Helpless and Ch. Defender of
the Helpless

Observations or Instructions to the Legislator
☞ In Procedure Code no Cops

The principle, from which the arrangements under this
head head are those in Chapter XII Defender of the Helpless § two
and in title Cops in the Procedure Code are derived,
is now for the first time brought publically into action. It is
the same which, Ao 1791 in the work on the Judicial Establishment,
written and printed for the use of Pursuers but not published in England, gave
birth to the just mentioned proposed institut Official situation just mentioned under the
title of Defender General. not well , altogether appropriate appellation of
Defender General. of the

In all hitherto established systems of the
partly through negligence partly by design the relatively helpless have in the lump
been left without defence: the relatively helpless, that is to say, every where the
have been justice have been for the most part
vast majority of the people: although the relation to judication, to have a man without
defence part of a government to deny him justice.

Under this same system, not only have those, who of
who are of destitute of of supply for the
themselves are destitute of the necessary means of supply for the natural
expence of litiscontestation, have been left unprovided with those
means, but, to that same natural expence factitious addition expence
have has, in various shapes and in various degrees
of enormity, been added.

(2)
In The present proposed Code has for its objects not only has
care been taken to exceed all the keeping excluded all such factitious expence , but
also the providing means for defraying, on every occasion, as far as
may be, the natural expence, after having done as much as what
the nature of the case is found to admitt of, towards minimizing
it.

(1)
Here then is injustice — injustice injustice in the shape the shape of sinister particularly
established by express law — established upon the an all-comprehensive
scale: injustice to the many for the benefit of the few.

In Monarchies, pure and mixt, but most
of all in the mixt monarchy of England, there oppression in that shape is the result of
design and system. In the only only Representative Democracy as yet fully
established — in the Anglo American United States — in so far as it still has place, is the mixt
result of design and negligence; design on the part of the lawyer tribe,
negligence on the part of non lawyers, in such design in some, namely
the
the ruling classes;
negligence and ignorance,
on the part of the rich.

Identifier: | JB/042/355/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 42.
Date_1	1824-08-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-6
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	355	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	instructions to the legislator
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1823
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public	[[notes_public::"copied and the copy revised and then corrected" [note in jb's hand]]]	ID Number	13278
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