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1828. August 25
Constitutional Code.
§ No inconsistency in thus harnessing the power of a Jury
But says somebody you in whose eyes their same
individuals are not unapt to bear a paramount part in
the business of legislationof legislation can even unbounded scale, can you with any contiary, regard
those as unapt with regard to a function so
in its extent so subordinate in its importance in that of
pronouncing a g or in case whether in the defendants side of the cause
is at state than the fate of this or that individual?
Answer
I answerAnswer 1. in regard to the power I give
to them - ot os under the pressure of necessity that I give it to
them because in no other land could it be riposed, without inthe
absolute certainty of its being abused.
2.. In the case of the power given to them as to the
of legislators, for in no certain whatever is any time of the legislation
given to them, I have them as according to all expression
I may without danger have them, to be assisted, and in as far as
this phase guided by general reputation: no opinion in
judgment of their are they in theirthat cause called upon to
pronounce. But of judicature by no one of can here be pronounced in other case no judgement can any one of the proname
any judgment which is not his own: no less direct as delted and coupled is
the cognizance taken of the matter this case their situation than in the his situation case
is that of the Judge. In the forming of it no impartial assistance
have they: no assistance that so much as pro to be impartial,
other than that of the Judge: of that very functionary,
to whose power the and sole use of theirs as to apply
a check: and under to whose direction guidance in so far as without
forming a relation to the number are opinion of their own, they
co themselves, their function is of in efficient and useless no use
