Excerpt from The Works of Sir William Jones, Vol. 5 of 13: With the Life of the Author, Lord Teignmouth The infiitution, gentlemen, of this court ap pears to have been mifapprehended: it was not, I firmly believe, intended as a cenfure on any individuals, who exifi, or have exified. Legif lative provifions have not the individual for their object, but the fpecies and are not made for the convenience of the tlay, but for the regu lation of ages. Whatever were the reafons for its firf't efiablifhment, of which I may not be fo perfectly apprized, I will venture to allure you, that it has been continued for one obvious reafon that an extenfive dominion, without a complete and independent judicature, would be a pheno, menon, of which the hifiory of the world affords no example. Jufiice mull be adminiflered with effect, or fociety cannot long fubfifl. It is a truth coeval with human nature, and not peculiar to any age or country, that power in the hands of men will fometimes be abufed, and ought alt. Ways, if pofiible, to be reftrained but the refiric tions of general laws imply no particular blame. How many precautions have from time to time been ufed to renderjtidges and jurors impartial.
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