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§. II Elucidations
§ Reconciliation Conclusion ?
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Dishonest suitor finds
in feefed Judge an
accomplice
Whoever beholds in any other man whom, no
matter on what account, his maleficence he has marked out for a his
for a victim to his maleficence, has it in his power to immolate
him, if by such his destined victim, the power of making
appropriate resistance is not possessed. and in any every
other man by whom any thing has been done, by which
contribution has been made towards depriving the victim of
such power of resistance, an accomplice. The mala
Every dishonest man beholds in every Judge by
fide suitor
whom is exacted in the price of his services a sum of
money be it no more than a farthing which he also has
need of them has it not in is power to pay an hireling
who on condition of his (the dishonest man's) becoming a
suitor, (and thus a mala fide suitor) will thus act as his accomplice,
and thus enable him, with the benefit of
assured impunity, to give accomplishment to his maleficent
purpose, whatsoever it be
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Tax upon justice is a
prohibition of justice
to those who cannot pay
the tax
In every instance in which the individual who has
need of the thing be it what it may which is the subject matter
of a tax imposed upon it has not wherewithal to pay the
tax, the tax has the effect of operates as a prohibition, and, under the name of tax
is in effect a prohibition as much as if prohibitive denominated
by that name, a tax upon justice is a prohibition of justice
to all who in the instance of as many persons as our unable
to pay the tax, a tax upon the services of a Judge for any
purpose is a prohibition of the use of the those same services, whatsoever
they may be.
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Judge who exacts a fee
for rendering justice
becomes an accomplice
to the wrong doer
The Judge by whom the payment of a fee for his services has
been demanded as a condition without the fulfilment of which
he will not render those same services is in has by
such his statement rendered himself the accomplice of
every offence, criminal or not criminal which has been
committed in the assurance of the relative inability thus produced
on the part of the intended victim — that is to say, the
inability to enjoy the receive the benefit
of any such remedy as is provided for those to whom the ability of paying the price
thus set upon it is not wanting.
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