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22 8 Apr. 1802 3 Dispensing Power

11 Criminality
Judges 2
He considers — and really not inaptly - what sort
of persons Judges are: if he did not take a course
were it not for the bar — the physical and bar, he has
determined to oppose to them, they would defeat his protests
. They have a sort of a prejudice about
them, which leads them+ to obey the will of the legislature:
+to take for their
standard measure of what
"may be proper"
and this will was what he had resolved determined to
should not be obeyed defeat. They would not regard his reasons
these reasons of his: for if they did, this part of the mischief
he is so apprehensive of would not take place, and
the Panopticon would be robbed <add> deprived</add> by the Judges themselves
of one of the two parts of the population designed
+But he sees what
sort of people Judges
are: how obsequious
to the will of Parliament:
how regardless
of state law made
by the arbitrary power
of a Secretary of State.
for it by Parliament. He therefore determines
and that constantly and necessary that
under his <add> the judicial power</add> the authority of these Magistrates shall share the
fate of that of the legislature Parliament.

or
It was therefore necessary to his purpose that he should tie up
the hands of the Judges but that which does I can not not
This indescretion
in displaying the
contrarity of his
measure to that
which he
would be adopted by
the Judge.
look upon as seem necessary to that purpose is that he diverts thus
truth about it. I even think of as purpose either
of the party or of the person that it could be necessary to
unless it be not of making a distinct
display of the superiority of his wisdom
as well as of his power, over the wisdom and power
+principle is not quite
so brilliant in the
case of Parliament,
as in that of the
Judges.
of these lawyers instruments of Parliament. In my view of the
matter, this step in ambition's ladder would have been
an anticlimax: though to be sure as the expected supposed contrarity
of opinions was not brought so distinctly brought a view the

Identifier: | JB/121/458/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-04-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	458	Info in main headings field	Dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D3 / F22
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::Postpone or Omitt [note in Bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	001
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