JB/118/444/002

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28 June 1809
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§. 1. Argument against and for a Judge demonstration status half and half composed
of the present Special Jury,

Gentleman: We are in possession of having a Jury
of our own sort at pleasure: that possession we choose to
have preserved to us.

Yeoman. More shame for you. On no principle,
either of general morality natural justice or of the English constitution, can
you defend this so recently usurped advantage. But with But the
case is that with that equality of members which is all we ask for
Equal members who were thus equal your in its dealings with possession
with with possession the advantage in all contests between you and
advantage you act as would still be most decidedly on your side. On your side is the superiority
of intellectual force in all its shapes – knowledge, address,
habit of taking the lead: and that the in regard to
that force which operates exists itself in the shape of influence influence of will
over will, the superiority is still altogether on your side.
Our class looks up to yours for employ, custom,
every thing: yours to ours for nothing: On To a man
of your class belongs the power of ruining a man of our
class by From your class our's has everything to fear:
from yours, from our's, yours nothing. Without any the slightest
cause ground or so much as a purpose, a man of your class
has but to bring an action against one of ours, or
if one action will not do to file a bill against him
and he is viewed his ruin follows of course. This is what we are, both of us indebted
for to your good friends the lawyers – for yours they would be if
they were any but ones the lawyers your side, is every element of what is
called responsibility: education, wealth, opulence, power, rank
connection. On every no other occasion you are does this superiority
never finds ever find you backward in the assertion of it: asserting
it on every other occasion and for every other purpose
on this occasion when, to this purpose alone, you must not you will not think of take upon you to deny
it. in this instance.

But to come to the point at once – Can you
sincerely think, and sincerely take upon you to say,
that in case of difference six of us can be as likely to have as good a chance of
persuading six of you, as six of you of persuade six of
us?

Identifier: | JB/118/444/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	444	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39498
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