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notice — and this is that for corruption
in a Judge it is in some cases
possible (such as receipt of hard money
for a declaredly unjust purpose) though
in no case very easy, for the Judge
to be punished whereas for the sort
of corruption which the Reverend Doctor
has been discussing, such as the obtaining
of a pardon on the score of
solicitation friendship, conciliating
and gratifying political attachments
and so forth, the danger of
punishment cannot be stated with
a serious face.
Upon the whole, what may be
admitted it should seem without
much difficulty is that there is no
sort of check that the Reverend Doctor
might not only be content but
desirous to see applied to the power
he is so fond of — subject only to
this proviso that of its being an
inefficient one. Oaths
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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