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Ob/ Feb. XV. B
Jury The only power I scruple trusting in the
hands of single Judges is that of condemning
to death : the mischief of capital punishment
being the only mischief a Judge can do that
in case of injustice is absolutely irreseparable - In the case of a
party offence such as that of High Treason against
the nation [ - nation] may just conceive
it possible that the Judge - immediately, the Judge
of the District Court of Appeal and the Judge of the Metropolitan Court of Appeal to whom the consequence of the cause happened to
should all be of a party , and tautly
agreed upon a plan of cutting off the heads
of the party upon the ground . The
power of displacing them though given
in my plan to so many different descriptions
of people might not be a altogether sufficient ,
since their party might be predominant
in every one of those descriptions, or they might
act upon the persuasion be persuaded confident of its being so, or for
the advantage of cutting off a head upon the whom
the of the whole party appeared to depend
it might be worth the they might be content to lose their places.
I have been striving my utmost to to
myself an hypothesis that may bear in my eyes a tolerable
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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arthur young |
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