This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THE CORRUPTION OF LAW AND JUSTICE BY POLITICS. The law as an instrument of injustice--English penal laws against Irish Catholics--Laws are made to favour the party in power--Exceptional laws are political laws--Lawyers find plausible reasons for bad laws--It is independent thinkers and not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THE CORRUPTION OF LAW AND JUSTICE BY POLITICS. The law as an instrument of injustice--English penal laws against Irish Catholics--Laws are made to favour the party in power--Exceptional laws are political laws--Lawyers find plausible reasons for bad laws--It is independent thinkers and not lawyers who improve law--Political assemblies often pass unjust laws--Laws are often passed under the influence of political passion--Characteristics of men in masses--In assemblies the violent often intimidate the moderate--Crude legislation and useful reforms--The corruption of justice by politics--Judicial murders--The calumniation of political opponents--Servility of judges to governments--Servility in the old English courts of justice --Juries and justice--French magistrates under the old regime--Governments dislike an independent magistracy-- Independence of character essential to a good judge-- Dangers of special commissions--The French Revolutionary Tribunal--Military men as judges--The police in politicsJudges should not be politicians. The law has been transformed by politics into an instrument of proscription and spoliation. Barbarous peoples make use of arms to kill and rob; people who think themselves civilised make use of laws. The law is as murderous as firearms, as potent an instrument of destruction as the axe, and depredations go on under cover of it as highway robbery under cover of a forest. Murder and robbery have been made part and parcel of the law: proscription and spoliation have been given legal shape. Legal proscription is more hateful than brutal violence, because upon iniquity it superimposes hypocrisy. The legists who lend persecution a legal guise are more depraved than those who butcher their fellow-men....
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