Constitution Quote by Nancy Grace

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

— Nancy Grace

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered…

— William Rehnquist

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person,…

— Lysander Spooner

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

— Anonymous

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they…

— Thomas Jefferson

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 the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect…

— Lysander Spooner

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir!…

— Edmond Francois Valentin About

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

— Thurgood Marshall

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought…

— George Mason