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LAW, POLITICS, &c. 



LAWS must be framed to meet and counteract 

 the vicious propensities of human nature. 



It is with laws as with weights and measures, 

 constant attempts at improvement* seem neces- 

 sary even to prevent deterioration. 



Nations must receive not the best laws, but 

 the best laws of which they are capable ; and in 

 all legislative enactments, allowances must be 

 made for the natural imbecility and imperfec- 

 tion of every thing that attends human pro- 

 ceedings. 



A Court of Law. 



In every court of law there must be at least three 

 constituent parts; the actor, reus, and judex. The 

 actor or plaintiff, who complains of an injury ; the 

 reus or defendant, who is called to make satisfaction 

 for it; and the judex or judicial power, which is to 

 examine into the truth of the fact, to determine the 

 law arising upon that fact, and if any injury appears 

 to have been done, to ascertain and apply the remedy. 



* The grand difficulty is to distinguish what is improvement, 

 from what is mere change and innovation. 



