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look at the Jury in an uncontrovertible, irresponsible
whose caprice is antipathyor unknown interest or secret
vengeance may decide his will and whose
will is his only law, and to whom a certain
dose of obstinacy from whatever source derived
gives power to subdueall his fellows.

3This argument would haveQuitting the strict
sense of the word decide does the argument observation
mean that wordunder this regimen no
more onemeets the man who has it in his
power to pervert renderthe Law into an theinstrument
of his destruction: it is not true of this system: it
can not be true of any. Under ourmy system
even the word constituted one a Judge how even
the station of a Judge, how illill-disposed,so-ever filledis the person stationof all others from
whom such an injury is least to be apprehended
. A false witness may extractextort
an unjust conviction from the most upright
Judge. What could Appsire have done or so much as attempted, without hisA Judge however profligate can not of
himself form a scheme for oppressing ruininga man
without the help of a false witness. Infinite is the
mischief that may be done by a bad judge: but
rarely indeed does it depend upon him to choose
his victim. The worst Judges upon record have
not done so: not Bacon in the civil line: not Scoggs
not Jefferies in the criminal. Bad Judges are

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Identifier: | JB/035/073/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / / / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10666
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