Judges and Magistrates
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (English)
Hence, in a magistrate, the necessity of vigilance, and, in a judge, of implacability, which, that it may become an useful virtue, should be joined to a mild legislation.
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The officials charged with applying, but not making or interpreting, the penal laws in individual criminal cases.
There is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom:
In every criminal cause the judge should reason syllogistically.
that is to say, a judge, or magistrate, from whose determination there should be no appeal;