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Thouret. Tit. III

Tit. III

Of Justices the Judges of the Peace

Art. 1

The Judge of the Peace can not be chosen but

1 Judges of Peace Qualification objected to To the office of Judge of the Peace no other
persons are qualified [to be appointed], than such
as qualified for places seats in the Department and
District Administrative Assemblies.

Observations on Tit. III. art. 2.

In this restriction I see no sort of use, nor any very
great harm.

It is of no sort of use. As a means of preventing
an unfit choice nothing surely can be expected from it. it is not worth a straw. in the ample
class of persons so ample as that marked will always
be to be found persons as illiterate and weak and profligate
and needy as has to be can found in any other.

Neither is the description given of the persons qualified
so accurate as

Some harm at any rate it does: for in legislation
whatever does no good does harm. Complication is
of itself a mischief, and a most frequent one.

2 Its uncertainty as to place Neither is the description given of the persons qualified
so determinate as could be wished. Where is it
that they must be qualified? I the qualification must be? Is it necessary it should
be in the Canton for which a man is chosen may it is sufficient

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