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Members or Demare The strength of the argument against single
Judges and summary justice lies in an epigram
of Montesquieu's. Single Judges are Bashaws: A single Judge is a Bashaw:
summary justice is Turkish justice. "The Bashaw
"sees how the matter stands at the first word,
"orders both parties a good a bastinado, to both parties, and there is an
"end of it." [Espr. des Loix Lev. VI. Ch. 2.] The cases
are not altogether parallel. In Turkey there is
no public written law: for among the thousand and
so many pages of the Alcoran there are scarce ten about
law, and they might as well have been about
any thing else. In Turkey no public; no newspapers;
no appeal National Assembly; no Municipal or Administrative bodies: no popular
elections: in Turkish justice no minutes
of proceedings; no appeals; no means of escaping
from the jurisdiction of a corrupt or partial
Judge into that of an unexceptionable one: an
escape which my plan ensures without expence, delay, or
difficulty
"The trouble, the expence, the delay, the
"dangers of justice are the price of liberty."
From this you are to draw two conclusions: conclude two things: that
without or with less than you have of them in France, or England or wherever else it is you live all these good things, or with anything less of the other the trouble, the expence and so forth
good things You are blessed with under the present system
them than you have, You would have no liberty: and that the more you have
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