Discourses Concerning Government volume 2
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tradiding each other, has rendred thefe difficulties inextricable. Tacitus imputes a great part of the miferies fuffer'd by the Romans in his time to this abufe, and tells us, that " the laws grew to be innu- " merable in the worft and moft corrupt ftate of ** things"*, " and that juflice was overthrown by them. By the fame means in France, Italy, and other places, where the civil law is rendred muni- cipal, judgments are in a manner arbitrary ; and tho' the intention of our laws be juft a...nd good, they are fo numerous, and the volumes of our ftatutes with the interpretations and adjudged cafes fo vaft, that hardly any thing is fo clear and fixed, but men of wit and learning may find what will ferve for a pretence to juftify almoft any judgment they have a mind to give. Whereas the laws of Mofes, as to the judicial part, being fhort and few, judgments were eafy and certain ; and in Switzerland, Sweden, and fome parts of Denmark, the whole volume that contains them may be read in few hours, and by that means no injufi:ice can be done which is not immedi- ately made evident.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
III.
tradiding each other, has rendred thefe difficulties inextricable. Tacitus imputes a great part of the miferies fuffer'd by the Romans in his time to this abufe, and tells us, that " the laws grew to be innu- " merable in the worft and moft corrupt ftate of ** things"*, " and that juflice was overthrown by them. By the fame means in France, Italy, and other places, where the civil law is rendred muni- cipal, judgments are in a manner arbitrary ; and tho' the intention of our laws be juft a...nd good, they are fo numerous, and the volumes of our ftatutes with the interpretations and adjudged cafes fo vaft, that hardly any thing is fo clear and fixed, but men of wit and learning may find what will ferve for a pretence to juftify almoft any judgment they have a mind to give. Whereas the laws of Mofes, as to the judicial part, being fhort and few, judgments were eafy and certain ; and in Switzerland, Sweden, and fome parts of Denmark, the whole volume that contains them may be read in few hours, and by that means no injufi:ice can be done which is not immedi- ately made evident.
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