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1824. March 27 + + + Constitutional Code. Copd

ulto Ch. XI. Judiciary collectively §. Justice to the poorest

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§. Justice to the poorest

Art. 1. Expence, in a pecuniary, or what comes to the same thing, in a quasi-pecuniary shape is on every occasion, as on the one side of the suit, so on the other, or with indispensably necessary to the ad obtainment of judicial service: expence and of this expence, of justice: so on the part of those him thus in whose instance the disbursement of it is involuntary, evil is, an attendant on it in a proportionable degree an inseparable accompaniment.

In some instances, the so small indeed is the evil necessarily attends attached indeed, if no expence over and above what is necessary or so small that considered so small is the amount of it that, no exertion on the part of the legislator would be capable of advantageously employed in the endeavour to put shut the door against exclude or exclude or compensate it : and this quantity small and in this shape will be may perhaps be found the quantity of it in for the greatest number of : in those cases of instances individual instances: and thus the only necessary will be that of preventing it from receiving of avoiding to cause or pursuit to receive factitious encreases.

But, on the other hand, neither on instances cases wanting in which no determinate But in other instances assignably limits can limits can be at to the amount magnitude of it. There are no limits except those set by the earth's circumference to the distance that may have place between the abode of the a necessary witness and the place at which his testimony may meet with greatest propriety be delivered: nor yet scarcely even to the numbers of witnesses whose testimony may be material: and as it distance — in place of it so it with quantity of time, and [+] [+] a quantity of compensation money that may be necessary to adequate compensation for it

Art. 2. As to the of which without unless aptly obtained by law the care of the Legislator, produced by it [+] [+] except in so far as it is by the pages of the Public Opinion the effect of it is to constitute of a graduated system of depredation and oppression a graduated system, of depredation, and oppression in the ways all other shapes, each superior rank exercising a tyrannical dominion over every other inferior to it in the scale of opulence. ability to defray the expence quantum of expence necessary to support in the

(2) To provide for the exclusion of tyranny, thus exercisable by means of superiority of opulence, belongs to the Constitutional Code, with an importance propriety no less unquestionably p necessary than the to provide for the exclusion of tyranny the same damage dominion when exercised by means of superiority of legal power.

(1) Art. 2. As to the evil, where in every case in which in so far the expence necessary as above to the formation of the ground support of a just demand is a just defence is wanting, it consists of every evil which a man is exposed to by the want of the protection of the law: by it the whole population of the country is placed under

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Date_1	1824-03-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	347	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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