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=cluded, as often as a verdict is delivered,
Say, in cases called civil, but implicitly:
but in cases called penal, as often as the verdict
is against the Defendant, most explicitly.
For, in the legal sense of the word guilty,
(which is the only sense here in question,)
be the act what it may, doing it is not
being guilty, unless that act stands prohibited
by some law: really existing law
in the case of written statute law: feigned
to exist in the case of common law. in this
one of the four or five different meanings
of the word.
Be the subject matter of
opinion what it may - be the class of men
what it may - be the number of them what
it may - to cause them to be all of one mind,
all you have to do is to put into their heads
the opinion it is your wish to see adopted,
and having stowed them in a Jury chamber,
keep them till they are tired of being
there.
In what abundance
might not time Labor and argument -
all these valuable commodities - this be
saved? Take the uncertainty of the law:
this, if not a proper subject for redress, is
at any rate, no inconsiderable degree, an
actual subject matter for complaint.
Make but the full use of the Jury boxes,
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