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The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1898). “A Blow at Trial by Jury: An Examination of the Special Jury Law Passed by the New York Legislature in 1896”
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.