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Judicial Estab.
Judges – Number
4. Numbers help one another to support the weight
of the public censure; and by the mutual encouragement
they afford one another fortify harden one another against
the danger. The more numerous the body, the
further it goes towards composing a sort of imperium
in imperio, a little public within
itself, capable of rivalling by its influence that
of the public at large, and compensating by
the reward of its applauses the punishment
inflicted by its distant rival. Few as are the
suffrages of this little interior public may be in comparison
of those of the surrounding one in point of multitude, there may
be no comparison in point of weight. The man
whose opinion is most material to me or the
man I am most in the habit of living with.
The man whose countenance makes most impression
on me is the man to whose eye I
am most constantly exposed. Hence the preference
given to debts of honour. Those who
born and bred in the House of Commons have
professed not scrupled to profess themselves ignorant of any other sense
of the people than what was to be collected in
that
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jeremy bentham |
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benjamin constant |
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