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But even if the people were predisposed to convict, the composition and the non-responsibility of the jury would still afford some chances favorable to the protection of innocence. In France, the qualification of the jurors is the same as the electoral qualification, namely, the payment of 200 francs per annum in direct taxes: they are chosen by lot.
On this easy cushion of non-responsibility the great masses fell back at their intellectual and moral ease softened, isolated, lulled. That wasn't leadership in a democracy. Right here is the President's vast failure. From it there is now no escape unless the Germans commit more submarine crimes. They have kept the United States for their own exploiting after the war.
Trusting to the idea of his non-responsibility as a shielding circumstance, he no doubt felt almost perfect confidence, till near the last, that a pardon, or commutation, would be granted, and ventured on that assurance. I constantly discouraged the idea, repeatedly urging him to put no confidence in that, but earnestly to set about a preparation for the worst.
"Because, if you are, it is a very dangerous and selfish practice, and I think your theory of non-responsibility is a very wicked one." "Well, I wouldn't say it to a child," mused Clay, "but to one who must have heard it before " "And who, you think, would like to hear it again, perhaps," interrupted Miss Langham. "No, not at all," said Clay.
"We would gladly pay you all the increased revenue you have brought us," were his exact words, "if you foreigners would go back to your own country and leave us in peace as we were before you came." Of course neither the wishes of the Chinese nor the question of Imperial responsibility or non-responsibility mattered greatly in 1900.
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