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Judicial Total
Judges Number
As probity and all those other qualities depend
upon dependence subjection
to popular opinion they depend
therefore proportionably upon publicity: that
publicity circumstance of which we have already seen the
effect and the importance: that circumstances on
which the tribunal of the public depends for its
information as well as for the weight of its censure.⊞ ⊞ as well as for the information by which that censure is to be guided cannot fall. Publicity when carried to the height
to which it may always be affords for the probity
of the Judge all the security that the nature of
things affords; and with the help of the censure of
the law, to which the full force of which it also
exposes a man, all the security that can be wished
for. The dominion of the powers of the office
amongst a number not only adds nothing to
this security but weaken it, reducing it in
some cases almost to annihilation, in seven six
different ways
Identifier: | JB/051/378/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
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051 |
evidence; procedure code |
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378 |
judicial establishment judges number |
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001 |
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text sheet |
2 |
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recto |
f7 / f8 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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16543 |
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