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<p>In Chapter the first I trace the activity given to the<lb/> Star Chamber was among the causes that <del>produced</del> <unclear>concerted</unclear><lb/> in producing mixture to the spheres of absolute monarchy <add>governed</add><lb/> avowed by James the 1<hi rend='superscript'>st</hi> and proposed by his immediate successor <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> <note><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi>a resistance which after a course of <unclear>vitriolic</unclear> between anarchy and despotism, gave a fixed character at length to the constitution, as settled by the <unclear>Revolution</unclear> The activity given to the Star Chamber in Charles 1<hi rend='superscript'>st</hi> time, & the contrast perceived between the insecurity produced by this mode of judicature, & the security created by Jury trial, was a powerful cause of the downfall of the Stuarts, & the destruction of Star Chamber</note> But it was to the Jury - box that the Star<lb/> Chamber owed its downfall: for it was by comparing the<lb/> utter <del>to</del> insecurity under the Star Chamber with the<lb/> comparative security afforded by the Jury-box with<lb/> predications from which it was not excluded, that<lb/> men <add>Englishmen</add> came to sense the value of <add>face the man <gap/></add> Jury trial in the<lb/> chronicle of a <add>supposed</add> security and to become <gap/> <add>persuaded</add> <lb/>of the necessity of defending themselves against a government <lb/><del>under</del> <add>by</add> which that barrier <add>which to arbitrary power</add> was intended to be recovered <add>got rid of</add>. </p> | <p>In Chapter the first I trace the activity given to the<lb/> Star Chamber was among the causes that <del>produced</del> <unclear>concerted</unclear><lb/> in producing mixture to the spheres of absolute monarchy <add>governed</add><lb/> avowed by James the 1<hi rend='superscript'>st</hi> and proposed by his immediate successor <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> <note><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi>a resistance which after a course of <unclear>vitriolic</unclear> between anarchy and despotism, gave a fixed character at length to the constitution, as settled by the <unclear>Revolution</unclear> The activity given to the Star Chamber in Charles 1<hi rend='superscript'>st</hi> time, & the contrast perceived between the insecurity produced by this mode of judicature, & the security created by Jury trial, was a powerful cause of the downfall of the Stuarts, & the destruction of Star Chamber</note> But it was to the Jury - box that the Star<lb/> Chamber owed its downfall: for it was by comparing the<lb/> utter <del>to</del> insecurity under the Star Chamber with the<lb/> comparative security afforded by the Jury-box with<lb/> predications from which it was not excluded, that<lb/> men <add>Englishmen</add> came to sense the value of <add>face the man <gap/></add> Jury trial in the<lb/> chronicle of a <add>supposed</add> security and to become <gap/> <add>persuaded</add> <lb/>of the necessity of defending themselves against a government <lb/><del>under</del> <add>by</add> which that barrier <add>which to arbitrary power</add> was intended to be recovered <add>got rid of</add>. </p> | ||
<p>It was in the intractability of Juries, and the<lb/> impracticability of mounting the people to a <add>any</add> system <note>Juries, and the impossibility of reconciling the people to the want of them, the great restrain upon the otherwise arbitrary power of Cromwel</note> of judicature from which that <unclear>supposed</unclear> was extended <lb/>that the Commonwealth, and those <add>the Pretender </add>Cromwell found <lb/>as a barrier against the | |||
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In Chapter the first I trace the activity given to the
Star Chamber was among the causes that produced concerted
in producing mixture to the spheres of absolute monarchy governed
avowed by James the 1st and proposed by his immediate successor + +a resistance which after a course of vitriolic between anarchy and despotism, gave a fixed character at length to the constitution, as settled by the Revolution The activity given to the Star Chamber in Charles 1st time, & the contrast perceived between the insecurity produced by this mode of judicature, & the security created by Jury trial, was a powerful cause of the downfall of the Stuarts, & the destruction of Star Chamber But it was to the Jury - box that the Star
Chamber owed its downfall: for it was by comparing the
utter to insecurity under the Star Chamber with the
comparative security afforded by the Jury-box with
predications from which it was not excluded, that
men Englishmen came to sense the value of face the man Jury trial in the
chronicle of a supposed security and to become persuaded
of the necessity of defending themselves against a government
under by which that barrier which to arbitrary power was intended to be recovered got rid of.
It was in the intractability of Juries, and the
impracticability of mounting the people to a any system Juries, and the impossibility of reconciling the people to the want of them, the great restrain upon the otherwise arbitrary power of Cromwel of judicature from which that supposed was extended
that the Commonwealth, and those the Pretender Cromwell found
as a barrier against the
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