The Legislator
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the legislator · a sagacious legislator · a wise dispenser of public happiness · lawgivers · legislators · the legislature · the wise legislator
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury (English)
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people.
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The lawgiver or class of lawgivers whose proper role is to make general, clear, and proportionate penal laws.
but it will be sufficient that the wise legislator mark the principal divisions, without disturbing the order, lest to crimes of the first degree, be assigned punishments of the last.
and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.
The first are temporary inconveniencies, which will oblige the legislator to correct the letter of the law, the want of preciseness and uncertainty of which has occasioned these disorders;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The lawmaking body whose enactments the jury is meant to check against natural justice.
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people.
The whole object of legislation, excepting that legislation which merely makes regulations, and provides instrumentalities for carrying other laws into effect, is to overturn natural law, and substitute for it the arbitrary will of power.
The powers of juries, therefore, not only place a curb upon the powers of legislators and judges, but imply also an imputation upon their integrity and trustworthiness;