It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers.… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal,… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws,… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
