Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-7] of 7 U.S. Supreme Court quotesU.S. Supreme Court QuotesU.S. Supreme Court In this country sovereignty resides in the people, and Congress can exercise no power which they have not, by their Constitution, entrusted to it: All else is withheld.~ U.S. Supreme Court [The] purpose of a jury is to . . . make available the common sense judgment of the community as a hedge against the overzealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps over conditioned or biased response of a judge.~ U.S. Supreme Court [T]he jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact.~ U.S. Supreme Court Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions.~ U.S. Supreme Court It may not be amiss, here, Gentleman, to remind you of the good old rule, that on questions of fact, it is the province of the jury, on questions of law, it is the province of the court to decide. But it must be observed that by the same law, which recognizes this reasonable distribution of jurisdiction, you have nevertheless a right to take upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy. ... For, as on the one hand, it is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumable, that the court are the best judges of law. But still both objects are lawfully, within your power of decision.~ U.S. Supreme Court Since it was first recognized in [the] Magna Carta, trial by jury has been a prized shield against oppression ....~ U.S. Supreme Court Emitting bills of credit, or the creation of money by private corporations, is what is expressly forbidden by Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.~ U.S. Supreme Court Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print