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I care very little whether the institution be
Gothic or not Gothic Mecannic Too much time is
always thrown away in flourishing upon these foreign
superficial and irrelevant topics of declamation
The question is what it is now we have
it, and what are it's effects, not whence
we had it, nor who gave it us: what is the in what proportion
benefit of it are the probable benefit, and disadvantages of it
now, not what they may have been formerly.
My sentiments of it would be just the
same, for the objections I have pointed out
to it would be just the same, were I to
know, that it was established by the
joint consultations of a Milton, a Hampden,
a Sidney a Russel, a Holt, a Nale, a Marvel a
Clarendon, a Falkland and a Somers:

I should as
If the probable effects of it are salutary,
I should expect some better reason for
arrogating it, than that it is Gothic:
If [the probable effects of it are] mischievous,
[I should expect some] a better
reason for retaining it than that it is
ancient It is time to relinquish these beaten commonplaces: which conclude nothing and but leave every thing as they find it. which say every thing to men's prejudices, & nothing to their reason: which produce never make converts, and always make ill blood.

That by Appeal, like any other Mode of Procedure
is received as a means to an a double end: [an
end dividing branching itself into two branches according
to the] Punishment of the party proceeded against in the case
where punishment is would be for the benefit of
the community; Discharge, absolution where it would
not. Now That being the case there is one way of judging
of the propriety expediency of this mode of Procedure:
and there is no other but one: and that is by it's
subserviency to that end. To into

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	12-22
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	249	Info in main headings field	appeal
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