 | Maeva Marcus - 1992 - 321 strani
...the judges,22 while the third, New York, provided for compulsory retirement of judges at age sixty.23 citizen "to be tried by judges as free, impartial,...and independent as the lot of humanity will admit," as it was put in the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.24 On the other hand, the puzzle was how much... | |
 | Lyman Tower Sargent - 1995 - 406 strani
...without his consent. 9. It is the right of every person to be tried by judges (and jurors) who are as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. 10. The jury acts not only as a safeguard against judicial excesses, but also as a barrier to legislative... | |
 | James W. Vice - 1998 - 304 strani
...have confidence that the members of the Court are making every effort to be, as FF quotes John Adams, "as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit..." (LM: 41). It would be hard to have respect for a Humpty-Dumpty Court which says the law is whatever... | |
 | Linda Przybyszewski - 1999 - 310 strani
...my favorite quotations is from the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. Its Article 29 declares that "it is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges...impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit."6 There's a strain of Cbristianitv in that last pbrase. Such a faith allowed people to recognize... | |
 | James A. Gardner - 1999 - 448 strani
...interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to he tried hy judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot...humanity will admit. It is, therefore, not only the hest policy, hut for the secarity of the rights of the people, and of every citizen, that the judges... | |
 | John E. Semonche - 2000 - 532 strani
...character and by withdrawal from the usual temptations of private interest may reasonably be expected to be 'as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.' " So committed were they to ensuring a rule of law, Frankfurter said, that the framers of the Constitution... | |
 | Robert J. Spitzer - 2000 - 300 strani
...character and by withdrawal from the usual temptations of private interest may reasonably be expected to be 'as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.' So strongly were the framers of the Constitution bent on securing a reign of law that they endowed... | |
 | Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner - 2001 - 418 strani
...only for the term of the political officials who appoint them seems designed to make these judges not as "free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit," but as subservient and partial as the will to power can bend them to be. A man must be a hero indeed... | |
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It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges... 
