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4173. JUDGES, Superfluous.—[continued].
I should greatly prefer * * * four judges to any greater number.
Great lawyers are not over abundant,
and the multiplication of judges only enables
the weak to out-vote the wise, and three concurrent
opinions out of four give a strong
presumption of right.—
To William Johnson. Washington ed. vii, 278.
Ford ed., x, 249.
(M.
1823)
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