...were strangers to the trial by jury." It is jury trial which, says he, 14 "preserves in the hands of the people that share which they ought to have in the administration of public justice, and prevents the encroachments of the more powerful and wealthy citizens." "And particularly,"...

...partiality and injustice have an ample field to range in. This therefore preserves in the hands of the people that share which they ought to have in the administration of public justice." Blackstone further wrote that trial by jury is secure only "so long as this palladium...