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<!-- indent --><p>When was it that the passion for Juries took<lb/> its rise? At the time when Judges were not only<lb/> the creations of the Crown, as now, but the absolute<lb/> slaves of the Crown, being <sic>removeable</sic> at pleasure.<lb/> Reasons grow fainter and fainter, <add>weaker or die<add>dwindle</add></add> or vanish altogether:<lb/> but the popular affections that were grounded in them<lb/> take root in habit and prejudice and live for ever.<lb/> Every thing done <del>to</del> in aid of the probity of Judges <lb/> has been a deduction <add>so much deducted struck off </add> from the relative utility of <lb/>Juries. William 3<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi> made them independent of <lb/> the King on the throne: George the 3<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi> made them<lb/> independent of the Heir apparent. What William <lb/> or what George will change this nominal independence <lb/> which <del>if</del> were it real, would but be <lb/> another name for despotism, into the only <sic>the only</sic> true and absolute security for <add>legitimate guardian of</add> <del>probity</del> probity and <lb/> every other <del>branch of </del> public virtue, & perfect <add>and legitimate</add> dependence on the people?<!-- on the people lightly struck off in pencil --> Whoever does so, will <lb/> have given the death-stroke to every thing that can <add>has</add><lb/> offer itself in a shape of a reason <add>any title to present itself in the character</add> in favour <add>defense</add><lb/> of Juries. </p> | |||
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Juries
When was it that the passion for Juries took
its rise? At the time when Judges were not only
the creations of the Crown, as now, but the absolute
slaves of the Crown, being removeable at pleasure.
Reasons grow fainter and fainter, weaker or die<add>dwindle</add> or vanish altogether:
but the popular affections that were grounded in them
take root in habit and prejudice and live for ever.
Every thing done to in aid of the probity of Judges
has been a deduction so much deducted struck off from the relative utility of
Juries. William 3d made them independent of
the King on the throne: George the 3d made them
independent of the Heir apparent. What William
or what George will change this nominal independence
which if were it real, would but be
another name for despotism, into the only the only true and absolute security for legitimate guardian of probity probity and
every other branch of public virtue, & perfect and legitimate dependence on the people? Whoever does so, will
have given the death-stroke to every thing that can has
offer itself in a shape of a reason any title to present itself in the character in favour defense
of Juries.
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constitutional code; evidence; procedure code |
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur young |
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