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Quotes from The History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States — George Bancroft

1800–1891 United States

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If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and a right that once was the citizen's safeguard of liberty.

The History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States (1882)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bancroft (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.