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Andrew Johnson: “I feel well assured that it will be better to trust the rights, privileges, and immunities of the citizen to tribunals…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1866
I feel well assured that it will be better to trust the rights, privileges, and immunities of the citizen to tribunals thus established, and presided over by competent and impartial judges, bound by fixed rules of law and evidence, and where the right of trial by jury is guaranteed and secured, than to the caprice or judgment of an officer of the Bureau, who it is possible may be entirely ignorant of the principles that underlie the just administration of the law.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee
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