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  • curprev 14:3214:32, 23 April 2024 Peter1c talk contribs 159,118 bytes +457 It was a thing not to be done suddenly nor at one Parliament; nor scarce a whole year would suffice, to purge the statute-book nor lessen the volume of laws;-being so many in number that neither common people can half practise them, nor the lawyer sufficiently understand them. ~ Francis Bacon, recommending "an abridgment of the laws and statutes of the realm," Speech to Parliament, 1593 undo
  • curprev 14:2014:20, 23 April 2024 Peter1c talk contribs 158,661 bytes +544 All those which have written of laws, have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live what is received law, and not what ought to be law: for the wisdom of a lawmaker is one, and of a lawyer is another. ~ Francis Bacon undo

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