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“Common sense declares, that governments are instituted, and judicatures erected for the obtaining of justice. The king’s bench was not established that the chief justice should have a great office, … . The honor and profit he receives, comes in as it were by accident, as the rewards of his service; if he rightly perform his duty: but he may as well pretend he is there for his own sake, as the king. God did not set up Moses or Joshua, that they might glory in having six hundred thousand men under their command, but that they might lead the people into the land they were to possess: that is, they were not for themselves but for the people; and the glory they acquir’d was by rightly performing the end of their institution.” – Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government (1698)
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:36:43 +0000

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