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Judicial Estab.
Judges – Number

in that character. The most corrupt tribunal not
only in England but perhaps in the known world
was that comprized consisting of the 40 or the to 558 members
of the House of Commons sitting on Election causes:
the respons even the degree of publicity inseparable
from the proceedings of such a multitude was insufficient
to infuse any tolerable degree of probity
into a body whose multitude exempt from the
obligation of giving reasons, and whose power shielded
them from danger, while their multitude served to harden them
against reproach. Thus The habitual depravity injustice iniquity of
their decisions was even the professed ground of the
sacrifice they made were brought to make of this
branch of their authority in a moment of virtue:
and the reducing the number of the Judges from
five hundred and fifty eight of the same persons to fifteen constituted
the principal feature in the change. In the Upper
House consisting of about half the number are The judicial
reputation of the Upper other House with half
the number of members would be at least half
as bad as indolence the indolence natural to hereditary
greatness concurring with a laudable consciousness of
unfitness were had not virtually transferred were not
in the habit of consigning relinquishing this part of the business
to a few professional members as the only expedient
for preserving their decrees from the imputation of
occasional partiality and constant ignorance.

Identifier: | JB/051/387/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	25-29
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	387	Info in main headings field	judicial estab. judges number
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f31 / f32 / f33 / f34
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16552
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