JB/118/430/002

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16 Feby 1809
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1. Conforming to Chancellors of or placing King in their stead.
2. Given in one not given in one right.
3. Your fault of , remain once more such which as they have recourse.

If there be any persons to whose eyes the exercise of arbitrary
power presents itself as a practice beneficial to society
either in any sort of hands without condition, or on
condition that the hands by which person by whom it is exercised shall
be designated by the name of Jurymen, I would venture
to proposed, by way of experiment, and in the character
of a succedaneum to that any application of it which
strikes directly against the authority of the legislature,
an application that which⊞ ⊞ the object of which is to support the authority of the legislature if the constitution be indeed worth
preserving, presents has long presented itself to my conception as being
at least eminently in an eminent degree conducive if not altogether necessary
to that effect.

Advice to Jurymen, by one antient Barrister
the fruit of a habit of reflection pursued during a period of more than twice the length of that –

1. Convict no man characterized by the imposing appellation of the in a prosecution for a state libel
until by competent authority, over the authority of the
legislature, such a definition of the sort of thing called
a libel shall have received such a definition, accompanied
with the requisite explanations, to such effect
that it may be possible for a man to make that
, and pass that judgment on the conduct
of public measures, and of public men in relation to those
measures as is requisite to the exercise and preservation
of what are commonly understood by English liberties,
insomuch in such sort that the utter interdiction and compleat prevention
of it would be destructive of those liberties.

Identifier: | JB/118/430/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	4
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	430	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39484
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