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25 May 1808 6

In Chapter the first I trace the activity given to the
Star Chamber was among the causes that produced concerted
in producing mixture to the spheres of absolute monarchy governed
avowed by James the 1st and proposed by his immediate successor + +a resistance which after a course of vitriolic between anarchy and despotism, gave a fixed character at length to the constitution, as settled by the Revolution The activity given to the Star Chamber in Charles 1st time, & the contrast perceived between the insecurity produced by this mode of judicature, & the security created by Jury trial, was a powerful cause of the downfall of the Stuarts, & the destruction of Star 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 excluded, that
men Englishmen came to sense the value of face the man Jury trial in the
chronicle of a supposed security and to become persuaded
of the necessity of defending themselves against a government
under by which that barrier which to arbitrary power was intended to be recovered got rid of.

But it was to the Jury-box that the Star-Chamber 
 owed its downfall: for it was by comparing the 
either to insecurity under the Star Chamber with the 
comparable security afforded by the Jury-box with  

Identifier: | JB/035/120/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	120	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	10713
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