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Show ACTS RELATING 420 Part III. Beet. VII. on the crown, as on the people, for an ar- bitrary fupport. To lefien their dependence on the peo- places in England, 7114722 dz'zt fl éme geflérim‘. king, but {hall hold their office, the infe- rior ones, during the plealnre of the fame deputy, the fuperior during the pleafure of the king. This indeed is firengthening the power of the crown, but it is weakening the fecurity of the people. The impar- tial adminitlrati-on of jufiice will no longer be impeded by the cabals of faétion, but will it not be liable to be impeded by the intrigues ofminilters P What then has the community gained by this change? Thofe who had f0 ftrongly reprefented' to government the neceHity of making the judges independent of the people, did not advife their being made as dependent on They advifed, that adethe crown. quate and fixed appointments {hould be 42E .the king or of the governor, or of the all femblies, but as the judges hold their ple, it is enacted, that the judges {hall not only be appointed by the deputy of the TO THE Commas. Their advice was, that the king fhould appoint them, but the law alone fliOLild difplace them. But what check would there then have been on the provincial courts, if the judges were appointed for life? That check which the confiitntion points out. Appeals {hould have lain from the decilions of the provincial courts, but not to a court, which exereifes an zg/z'zrpedjurifdiction, to which it is in every light in« competent ,; not to the king in council, but to the court of king's bench in England. The next thing iiecellary towards «infuring the impartial adminif'tration of jultice was to regulate the mode of appointing juries. Under the former government, we are told, the mode of cleft,ing the grand juries was liable to many alligned them ; that they {hould hold their places, not during the pleainre either of .ohjec'tions. They were chofen and returned the by the freemen, on notice tent them by the EC 3 2. |