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  • It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.

    Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.82
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