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CERTAINTY
Disadvantages of the form of Common
Law
1.
1st The Axioms are all made ex post facto - after
the event which called for them to have been made
before
2.
2nd A great many decisions & a vast heap of Paper words
It is not the particular Axioms decisions wthemselves which can serve as guides to govern to man's conduct, but only the Axioms that can be formed out of them.
go to the making of a very small short Axiom.
3.
3rd Instead of being established as is pretended by the
consent of the nation at large they have no more
concern in their establishment commonly than the consent
of 4 men appointed by the Crown the number of Judges in the High Courts of
Common Law: very often of no more than one
whereas to those established by Statute there goes
The chicane of pretending & c
the consent of a majority of never fewer in than
some hundreds of whom the greater part are
chosen by the People.
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