[7]
Next, as for the question of bribery or
no bribery, of course you are agreed that it is a scandalous and abominable
offence to accept money for acts injurious to the commonwealth. The author of
the statute, however, made no such distinction; he forbade the acceptance of
rewards absolutely, holding, as I suppose, that the man who takes them and is
thereby corrupted can no longer be trusted by the state as a judge of sound
policy.
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