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CERTAINTY Stare decisis
Even the dispensing power, if one may
ever venture to say so.
This along with the good one, is
one bad effect of the judicial
reproduction of General Warrants.
I say bad effect I say: for the present
tho' an happy one it will be
in the end if it contributes eventually
[along with what is here offered
to observation] to the grand work of
settling the whole Law upon a
Basis which shall be no longer
questionable.
In ancient Statutes particularly
A Sharper sense taken of the mischief
was necessary to simulate them into certainty themselves in taking
has always preceded the Remedy
& the Remedy has barely covered the
mischief, which has commonly
broken out in another place—
a sharp stimulus was necessary to
raise a people into measures for their rendered patient by the
variety of sufferings to which the universal barbarism
exposed them from the Government & from one another.
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