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1826. Decr 8.
Review of Humphreys
(1.)
Ch. Agenda
§. 1. Matter
Sinister interest
unmasked by it.

In speaking of the causes of mislegislation
and misdecision throughout the field in question,
our author has not brought to view the all-comprehensive
and universally productive main
efficient cause, particular and sinister interest, interest
in direct and complete opposition to duty, on
the part of rulers, in both situations, that of rulers
and that of Judges, whether acting in such their
appropriate character, or in their assumed and usurped
but studiously concealed character of legislators —
causes of inaptitude on the part of the work,
correspondent inaptitude on the part of the workmen;
inaptitude in respect of every branch of appropriate
aptitude, moral, cognitional, judicial and active,
cause of the moral inaptitude, sinister interest:
cause of the cognitional inaptitude, unimproved state
of society in former times; cause of the Judicial inaptitude,
interest begotten prejudice and authority begotten
prejudice, cause of the active inaptitude,
unimproved state of society, as just mentioned sinister
interest, it was not by that, but by ignorance
and misjudgment that the evil was in former times
created, is the cause why, in modern and present
times it has been preserved. But it was not
till other day the system of sanctioned depredation
by self corruption, by the Legislature legalized,
and if the blindness or apathy of the people, an
abomination so flagrant can be endured, perpetuated.
The Judges being secured in the possession of the
faculty of self payment to an unlimited amount, by
and in proportion to the quantum of factitious delay,
vexation and expense, and denial of justice.
The names of the men principally concerned in and
profiting by this most audacious act of self corruption
upon record, will descend to posterity in
company with those of Scroggs & Jeffries.

Is

but neither what
is necessary that
he should, that
ask having been
amply performed by
other hands; yet so
long as it remains
unadverted to, the
whole mass of law, genuine
and spurious
together, is a riddle:
a mass of effects, without
a cause.

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Date_1	1826-12-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field	Review of Humphreys
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