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26 Jun  03  
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But why says somebody start put such extreme 
cases? why what informer can be drawn from start such improbably suppositions thus 
improbable. Under a government constitution such as ours,
 can a t man pretend to entertain any serious apprehension
 of a Bastile Bastile? I answer true: hitherto,
 not: scan the Habeas Corpus Act no such apprehensions 
have in general been entertained. But why? because
 there stands — there has stood all along has been the Habeas Corpus 
Act: and, no such construction as that contended against having ever been put upon it, it has been regarded
 — and has regarded by every body — as commensurate
 to the mischief — as sufficient for the prevention
 of it. But, upon the construction contended against
 it is would no longer be commensurate to the mischief. On that construction At this
 moment these crests, for these fourteen years there has
 been existing existed a Bastile; and New South Wales is that
 Bastile. The o cla As yet indeed it is not yet open 
for the reception of all comers. For The descriptions alone 
can it as yet be made to some.   Delinquents of shapes opposite enough 
certain classes descriptions after their expiration terms of legal punishment
 — are refused! and military men of all ranks
 and divisions: mariner and navy not excluded. 
Upon the talks of the two classes what should hinder it from being
 employ'd? Upon the former it has been employ'd and
 employd for them been employing  years. The professional — the titled defenders of their
 country are not (it may be said) in any such defenceless helpless state 
as the victims upon whom the oppression has been thus 
already exercised: — trec the former are not like the latter,
 als without        
| Identifier: | JB/116/385/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. | |||
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| jeremy bentham | 1800 | ||
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