Quotes on the Law and Lawyers #4 (Trial By Jury)
From the Trial by Jury Department:
“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.”
– Winston Churchill
The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, United States Supreme Court Justice
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- Quotes on the Law and Lawyers #5 (On Courts)
- Quotes on the Law and Lawyers #6 (Constitutional Construction)
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