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CERTAINTY JURY Advantages of that Trial what -
1 The [essence virtue of the superior excellence] of the Jury
Trial is not lodged [consist not in the Number 12: although
thereare 12 months in the year, 12 signs
in the Zodiac, although there were 12 Peers
of France, 12 Gods of the 1st Rank, & 12
Apostles
It consists not in the constraine union of
for we must not call it unanimity.
Such a union among the Judges seems at first
sight to be much the same test of Truth, as
The only answer to this is that it is fit the decision should be in weights determination of the decision should the ratio as will of the intensity as of the nume of Suffrages Fortune is with respect to the Criminal: the one
depending upon the rigidity of the nervous fibres
the other upon the obstinacy of the mental frame.
It consists not in the opportunities of extra-judicial;
[+] in other words, their absolute capacity for judging intelligence [+] than ill grounded reason for the qualification
of strict neighbourhood, exacted by the
old Law, now no more: Not the fact in question
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promiscuous her but as in most countries from
men prepared for the office by discipline & : in a word if they were not Jurymen
but Judges.
5 It consists not much little in their substance any further than their capacity for judging may be affected by it : in their substance: [the matter object of many anxious regulations of our Ancestors which might with more advantage have been pointed to the object which I was about to mention.]
It consists in their indifference
This indifference is second in different instances
by one or both more of 23 expediants:
1st By the fortuitousness of their appointment
2dly By the suddenness of it
3dly By the operation effects of the power of reservation lodged
either in both parties or in the party most
obnoxious to oppression amounting approaching in a certain
degree to a choice
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