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   From: Guy@bigsky.com   
      
   "It is better that ten guilty escape than that one innocent suffer."   
   - Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) English Writer on law   
       Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) IV, 27   
      
      
   "William Searle Holdsworth, one of Blackstone's successors as Vinerian   
   Professor,   
   argued that 'If the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I   
   think it very doubtful that [the United States], and other English speaking   
   countries would have so universally adopted the common law' In the United   
   States,   
   the Commentaries influenced Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, James Wilson,   
   John   
   Jay, John Adams, James Kent and Abraham Lincoln, and remain frequently cited in   
   Supreme Court decisions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone   
      
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