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1824. July 13
Constitutional Code.

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Ch.Xii Judiciary collectively
(4) (7 § Preinterpretative function

Objection. The consummate power being then added to
the , the compleat power of Legislation is then
add given to the Judiciary. Answer. Yes. but were it not for the negative
reserved to the Legislature, and the constant and express call upon
that authority for the attention to the subject. But the fact truth
is — that by the p here proposed institution the power of Judges,
so far from being encreased, is : and this was according
one of the objects one principal object in view. In general the Judged do what the Judge or Judges who are
they please, they legislate no effect and the end has the they by/are do on every in effect occasion whatsoever/exactly what they please: whatsoever suppose to be most in accordance
with their own
sinister interests, sinister
Associations and interest-together
prejudices in effect they act as</add>
of legislation the power they exercise is still left legislators, and without any of those checks which apply to Legislators:
clearly than that of the Legislature. On this point exactly They do exactly as they please, and whatever it is the here proposed
that they do does the Leglislature bestow upon it so much as a
thought. Yes if any influential member of the Legislature sees his own particular interest
affected by it:
for in that case there
would be enough:
but so long as any such
effect escaped observation
but except any effect<lb>of this sort happens to be
described — and no one
has any leisure be lost
for it, the fate of the people are is
left to the mercy of
their necessary and
even implacable
enemies. On the here
proposed plan
nothing could ever take the form of law that had not been presented<lb?>in to the eyes of the Legislature: at the same time
the yet a vast quantity of time, which, in the case of an of
proposed law proposed to the Legislature by miscellaneous and less
or less experienced hands, would by the expedient of silence
non non- for adoption, be saved.

Under the French Charter which in the Administrative branch
of law stands excluded from all chance of , and condemned
to an endless course of [by the possession of the till it reaches over more than
of the King in regard t the bottom of the abyss of despotism, penal and the civil branch is by the same cause
in some degree preserved from and confusion. This
cause is the confining to the King that initiative which in England
every member belongs of right to every member of the Legislature.

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