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temptation, the less likely he would be to yield to it. But
constructions thus favourable are too much to be looked for
on the part of the public at large. A power of this sort, if
not in reality a dangerous, would be so in appearance.
Dangerous or not, it would at any rate be a very invidious
one: & such as on that account nothing short of absolute
necessity would induce him to charge himself with.

The more dangerous it appeared, the stronger
the checks which it would appear to require. The subsisting
choice was the joint offspring of two concurring powers,
and initiative in the hands of three Supervisors and a
Commissioner of approbation vested in the twelve Judges,
added to the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker, and the first
Magistrate of the Metropolis. Such was the body of
controul which was deemed necessary to confine within
the limits of justice & propriety the original & still subsisting
choice: the authors of that choice all of them
altogether devoid of personal interest: all of them men
of fortune: two in particular men of very large fortune:
two of them men of rank. A check less powerful could
not surely with any tolerable consistency be applied to
the supposed new choice, by which that original one,
without

Identifier: | JB/119/189/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	189	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
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Notes public		ID Number	39700
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