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Our three courts of law--the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, and the Exchequer--for the sake of the fees extended an originally contracted sphere into the entire sphere of litigation.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot discusses the expansion of the courts of law in England due to financial incentives.
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But it is natural also that persons used to analyse political institutions should look at these anomalies with a little tenderness and a little interest.
Just so the lines of our Constitution were framed in old eras of sparse population, few wants, and simple habits; and we adhere in seeming to their shape, though civilisation has come with its dangers, complications, and enjoyments.
These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.
Political philosophy is still more imperfect; it has been framed from observations taken upon regular specimens of politics and States; as to these its teaching is most valuable.
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