Bias Quote by Thomas Jefferson

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people,…

— Andrew Jackson

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not beindependent of the people, but…

— Anonymous

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

— 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

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

— John Gay

The judges are subject to the law.

— Yoav Gallant

“Those who only have the right to judge are those in court and those in contest.”

— Caroline de Leon

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive…

— Learned Hand

If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— John Jay

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

— William Henry Maule