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1821 Decr 18

Codification Proposal

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Appendix

Lawyers interest

III. In respect to Lawyers power and influence

The peculiar and sinister interest of the fraternity of lawyers being thus adverse and irreconcilably hostile to the interest of the greatest number What the interest of the greatest number requires is, that the power and influence possessed by that same hostile fraternity be as small as possible:

On the contrary What /That which/ the interest of the fraternity of lawyers requires in this particular /relation to this one of the elements of human felicity/ is © that it be in their hands as abundant as possible: and therefore that its operation be as independent of the operations of the acknowledged legislator or legislature as possible.

this fraternity exercising under the name of simple judication /judicial law/ exercising to the greatest extent possible, the functions and power of the legislator or legislature

To this purpose that which the interest of the fraternity further requires is that among the terms and phrases employed by them the number and effective force be as great as possible of such terms and phrases as besides being in the highest degree obscure, ambiguous, incorrect /inadequate/ /inapposite/ be terms and phrases framed /invented/ or chosen for the purpose here in question © for the purpose of effecting this usurpation by themselves /assuming and exercising their usurped power/: namely that is to say either words /terms and phrases/ wholly devised for this purpose by themselves, thus constituting as far as they go a terminology /vocabulary/ peculiar to themselves, or words in common use to which for the same purpose they have attached a particular signification of their own devising not commonly attached to them by the people at large