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Employed Chtr If the absurdity of the system course of procedure
can receive any additional proof from the confession
of those under whose authority it is carried
on, neither is this proof wanting. Would one think
it? With all this care anxiety of arbitrary laws only to
exclude arbitrary discretion, these conjunctions will
every now and then turn up in the hurly
hurly-burly of this chaos, which lay the parties
at the mercy of the judge. A suitor in his
attempts to draw his antagonist into one of
those pitfalls which the law has sown so thick
in the path of justice, falls into it himself. The
then cries to the Judge to help him out. Yes
says the Judge, with an honest exultation: but
now I have you I will make terms with you.
The laws I am obliged to act under, are a heap
of folly; let us think no more of them. [Consent
to their abolition: give me the powers which they
have taken from me and without which no justice
can be done.] They have set up an insurmountable
barrier between truth and sin: suffer me
to pull it down: [your antagonist shall do the
same] I will exact from your antagonist a number the same
compliance. We durst not any man than you, upon
me:
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