23 Mar. 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

In every nation in which law has been considered as a science, men of law /the man of law/, with their eyes open, have organized this tyranny. The profit to be obtained by selling their services to the [...?], and on these terms rendering themselves the willing /blinded/ instruments of oppression, has been on this occasion their evident /as incontestably their manifest/ object, as well as their sure reward /it has been certainly their reward/. In this way, by means of real power, screened from odium /protected against odium/ by a covering of pretended science, they have in the bosom of every empire established /created/ an empire of their own and fore their own benefit. In what way the profit /plunder/ is shared by men of law of all shapes and all ranks, official as well as professional, and how compleat the [...?] is of Sinister /intimate the connexion is in point of sinister/ interest, are questions /inquiries/ that belong not to the present purpose.
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