JB/081/323/001

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1829. April
Petition

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Supplement.
§.2 Elucidations
Justice of Peace
Official Establishment
Petty Sessions 3.
Evil 2. Optionality

2. Evil the 2d. Optionality as to attendance.
optionality on the part of every one of these Judges, — optionality,
as between the whole of the time and none, and as
between every each part of the time and every other:
thence, power of giving his contribution to this decision,
on delusively partial evidence, or without regard to evidence:
and this without censure at the hands so much as checks of public
opinion: not to speak of legal punishment: [+]

[+] Thus From the fluctuation
in the number of these
Judges springs the above
mentioned danger of
injustice intended or not
intended. injustice. But from But from
the optionality as to
attendance of the on
the part of each and
every Judge, springs
the facility afforded to
corruption: to corruption
by which to a boundless
extent injustice is at
rendered as abundant and
unproveable pleasure
capable of being
made abundant
and unproveable.

Here may be and completely
effectual and at the same time compleatly safe mode of administering is it the administration
and receiving, on this as on other occasions, and receipt of the matter of corruption
the matter of corruption by the means newly applied rendered by the optionality as
to attendance

For gratification of groundless hatred
or of predatory rapacity, in the breast of a real man, a breast occupying a level high in the scale of opulence an unjust
decision is determined (suppose), to be pronounced
at the charge of a Man. one whose place is on a degree sufficiently lower in that same scale. Number of these
Judges empowered having right to attend (suppose) five — all of them
(suppose) conscious of the injustice. Between the dishonest suitor
and two of these five Judges, the connection formed by community
of sinister interest so close, that these two, for their
share of the benefit of the unjust decision, are content to
stand exposed to the censure of public opinion. As to The three
others, they would not (suppose) any one of them, have been this handy:
had they been in attendance, the decision would accordingly have
been accordingly in favour of the intended action; such, that the victim marked for sacrifice and
he would have remained unimmolated. [+] [+] But under
of by the liberty in question,
by the of attendance being purely by these his
colleagues, these themselves
stand exempted from the
necessity of thus committing
themselves; to the
purpose of the common
object, their absence
has the effect of presence. But seeing that
by staying away they render equally secure the production
of the desired anguish and oppressive effect, and this, without
exposing themselves to censure at the hands of that or any
other authority, they stay away

True it is that, in this way, the evil effect immediately
produced is not, in the instance of any one of these
corruptionists equal to the whole of the evil produced by a that which in case of and
might have been produced by him by means of a note given on the wrong side: it is, however, equal to one half
of that same evil effect; and where the ultimately produced evil is
in both cases the same, any difference in respect of the intermediate bad effect amounts to nothing.

Such

Identifier: | JB/081/323/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	323	Info in main headings field	petition
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d26 / e3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	1828
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	26110
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