 IT is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges...  Albany Law Journal - Page 3301871Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Savage Shaw - Judges - 1885 - 94 pages
...furnished him, and in which he left his testimony to the value of our judicial system : — Above all, let us be careful how we disparage the wisdom of our fathers...and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. Let no plausible or delusive hope of obtaining a larger liberty, let not the example of any other State,... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1890 - 1112 pages
...interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. It is therefore not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of... | |
 | Burton Willis Potter - Highway law - 1893 - 300 pages
...before the full board.2 The fundamental principle that " Every citizen has the right to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit," applies to county commissioners as well as to the judges of our courts. And therefore they are disqualified... | |
 | Law - 1893 - 330 pages
...liberty and property according to standing laws," and (4) " the right of every citizen to be tried by judges, as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit." Upon the point that the doctrine allowing juries to judge of the law is unconstitutional, under the... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. It is, therefore, not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional law - 1894 - 1436 pages
...interpretation of the laws, and administra tion of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by eir local and other circumstances, and have been introduced, used It is, therefore, not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of... | |
 | John Downey Works - Jurisdiction - 1894 - 956 pages
...of article 20 nf our declaration of rights, that ' it is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit,' rests upon a principle so obviously just, and so necessary for the protection of the citizen against... | |
 | James Albert Trefethen - Trials (Murder) - 1895 - 420 pages
...circumstances best calculated to constitute a tribunal in the language of the declaration of rights, " as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit." And, gentlemen, when it is said we may err, it is true, but it is nothing more than tosay that we are... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 268 pages
...interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. It is, therefore, not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of... | |
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