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25 May 1808 6
In Chapter the first I turn the activity given to the
Star Chamber was among the that produced concerted
in producing of absolute monarchy governed
avowed by James the 1st and proposed by his immediate successors + +a which after a course of between anarchy and despotism, gave a fixed character at length to the constitution, as settled by the Monarchists The activity given to the Star Chamber in Charter 1st time, is the contrast perceived between the insecurity produced by this mode of judicature, to the security created by Jury trial, was a powerful cause of the downfall of the Stuarts, & the destruction of the 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 intended, that
men came to know the value of face the man Jury trial in the
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