Community Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to…

— Michael Badnarik

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

— Byron White

“Most Americans were familiar with their Miranda rights; they’d heard the words recited so often on the plethora of police and detective shows populating…

— Robert Dugoni

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

— Alexander Hamilton

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one…

— James Madison

That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted…

— George Mason

“The Department of Justice has now served official notice that it believes the courts should allow a prosecutor to argue under any circumstances that…

— James Duane

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

— Samuel Chase

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

From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair…

— Hugo Black

The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy

— John Gay

Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the…

— John Henry Wigmore