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Thus in the particular case
above spoken of where the object of the
proposed law was to take away
from the hands by which it is
at present exercised the arbitrary
power of life and death, the sparing life
where it is their custom to spare it
leaving it in their power to sacrifice it
in those cases in which it is their custom
to take really into consideration whether
they shall or shall not sacrifice it,
if the above mentioned opinion of Lord
Cambden were to be received as
authority and that authority as decisive
would be to bestow approbation and
acceptance on the proposed law — to
apply censure and in the strongest
terms to the existing practice to rank
in the class of tyrants all by whom the
existing practice is persevered in and
in the class of adherents of tyrants all those
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