Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “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.” ~ Justice Theophilus Parsons (1750-1813) Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of MassachusettsSource: 2 ELLIOT’S DEBATES, 94, BANCROFT, HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION, p.267, 1788.