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Judges Numbers Judicial Estab.
7
Subjection to public
opinion is
weakened by by in 7 seven
different ways.
The Dependence on public opinion will be found to be is weakened
in this station by numbers in the seven different
ways.
1. Numbers help one another
1. In a body of Judges numbers to contribute
to weaken on the part of each man his dependence
on public opinion in seven different
ways.
1. They may even help him to overbear it
and govern it command it in a certain degree
instead of paying obedience to it: and thus they
will do in virtue of the favourable prejudice that waits on
profession and high station: giving setting thus the law
to public opinion instead of receiving it. If
the influence thus exerted extended itself over the
whole body of the public, the immediate mischief
would not be so great, except & in as far as
it tended to establish despotism: for to the
sense of security it is no matter which sets the
law to the other the opinion of the public or the
opinion of the Judge, so as the two agree they
do but agree. But the mischief is in this respect
that the influence of the sort of prejudice in
Identifier: | JB/051/379/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
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379 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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