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High Court I make it the duty of the Prosecutor-General
to inform against any prevarication which he sees
cause to inspect on the part of the a Supreme Judge:
and that on pain of being responsible as an accomplice
for connivance. For I mean he should inform willing
or unwilling: if should any such thing misfortune take place
he of all others is most in the way of observing it.
If he is not willing obligation is necessary: if he is
willing, it is useful: in every invidious station
a man ought to have the plea of duty given him
as a cover to inclination. But This is one of the cases in which real liberty may depend
for its existence on the appearance of constraint.

I do not make the prosecution of the prevaricating
supreme Judge depend altogether upon
the prosecution of a man who may possibly be
his enemy but is more likely to be his companion
and his friend: if I did, the two by joining
in criminality might do what they would with
impunity confederacy between the two would secure success and
impunity to any guilty enterprise.

I do not however give the right of prosecution
to disappointed parties and individuals at
large: if I did, the state legislature would be
pestered with appeals on pretence of prosecution. Under

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Identifier: | JB/051/209/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	209	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16374
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