It, nevertheless, under all these disadvantages, impressed itself upon the understandings, and imbedded itself in the hearts, of the people, so as no other system of civil liberty has ever done.
He notes the enduring impact of the jury system on the people's understanding of civil liberty despite historical challenges.
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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.