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Supplement
(1) (1 II. Elucidations
§.6. Reconciliation
Parties appearance
whence the exclusions
Judges sinister interests
☞ N.B. It might have been an advantage could
that the contents of this and the four next pages occurred time enough
to have been worked up
with the Subordinate in to
the Devices.
§ Sole proper mode of commencement of a suit. Law excluded
by Judge and Cos sinister interest
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Proposed system the only
one that has ever had
for its object the ends of
justice
The here proposed system — procedure and judicial
establishment together the only established one that in any country
can of all that ever had in any civilized country ever
have been established before the public eye the only one that ever has really had for
its ends the ends of justice: the only one that ever has had for
its ends any more legitimate and defensible ends
than the advancement of the particular and say interest
of the persons employed occupied in bringing it into existence: these
and such other persons as were connected with them by community
of like sinister interests. Such is the truth — which
unwelcome as it is, the author has alread all along been
under the painful necessity of holding up continually to view
necessity to wit for the conjunct purposes of implanting
in the minds of the readers the conviction of the depravity
of the existing system, by laying bare exposition of the cause of that
same depravity, and thereby preparing them for the reception
of the first system that ever really had for its ends the
ends of justice.
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Persons concerned in
forming the existing
system every where
the Sovereign and
Judge and Co
Every And the authorities jointly concerned in the
the formation of the existing established system what have they been?
Every where these two the Sovereign authority, and the members of
the law learned brotherhood. Of the Sovereign, in what way so
ever constituted and composed, the object or end in view
of the arrangements made in regard to his people have
been of course the same as those made by the Sheep- Cattle-owner
in relation to his flock — the extraneous form of the aggregate
quantity stock of the objects of general desire, the extracting as large
a proportion as possible for his own use. But, if the wolves
were suffered to make their inroads, and devour the cattle
the greater the number of the cattle so devoured, the fewe
smaller that of those left for the use of the owner: hence the
arrangements having for their object made for the provision maintenance of a defensive force, and the application of it to suit
its purpose: so and
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