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In The clause promise of obedience in art. 14, the clause,
limiting the engagement to such matters touching things done by the Judge the
execution of the his office may serve to shew the difference
between the observance and the contravention of the above
rule. Without Omitt the limitation this Judiciary oath
would have been is of the a piece at with the Oxford
Statutes: Attorneys' oath insert the limitation the engagement
embraces nothing involves no obligation but
what may easily be fulfilled. That sort The obedience
of a Judge as such, the obedience which consists in the
endeavour of carrying into execution such laws only
as were befor call for his obedience in the quality of
a Judge may without difficulty be preserved inviolate
during the course of a whole life
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judicial.
And mark here the excellence of the popular
mode of election. For though this kind of unction
might be employ'd even when the nomination
was in the hands of a single person, upon the condition of giving the public the benefit of the price without
forfeiting altogether its title to the name:
yet there is no other case where it could be employ'd
with equal advantage and security.
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