Absurdity Quote by John Adams

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and…

— John Adams

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept…

— Gordon S. Wood

There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and…

— Lysander Spooner

If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable…

— Harlan F. Stone

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to…

— Mark Twain

I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision…

— Al Gore

“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can…

— John Adams

“But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect.…

— Richard A. Posner

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense…

— E. P. Thompson

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge…

— Socrates