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

by:
Justice Theophilus Parsons
(1750-1813) Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Date:
1788
Source:
2 ELLIOT’S DEBATES, 94, BANCROFT, HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION, p.267, 1788.

 
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