 | James Albert Trefethen - Trials (Murder) - 1895 - 420 pages
...circumstances best calculated to constitute a tribunal in the language of the declaration of rights, " as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit." And, gentlemen, when it is said we may err, it is true, but it is nothing more than tosay that we are... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 268 pages
...of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. It is, therefore, not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 pages
...of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780: "It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit." Hardly less noteworthy was the article of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, asserting "that the independence... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire - Bar associations - 1903 - 1012 pages
...of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. It is, therefore, not only the best policy but for the security of the rights of the people, and of... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1900 - 1296 pages
...and uniform, as well as impartial interpretation of the laws and administration of justice, by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit? The purpose and intent 6f these provisions, we think, are indicated by the last article of the declaration... | |
 | William Thomas Davis - Colonies - 1900 - 486 pages
...interpretation of the laws and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. It is therefore not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 720 pages
...of the maxim by declaring (Article 29) that it is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit." He defines the nature of the interest as follows : 1. It is not a mere possible, contingent interest;... | |
 | State Bar Association of North Dakota - Bar associations - 1909 - 1020 pages
...of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. It is, there best policy, but for the security of the ri and of every citizen, that the judges of th... | |
 | National Civil Service Reform League (U.S.) - 1907 - 772 pages
...service commission ought, to use the words of the Massachusetts bill of rights as applied to judges, "to be as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will allow." Commissions should have sufficient salaries and appropriations for their work. 6o Secretary... | |
 | William Draper Lewis - Judges - 1908 - 634 pages
...providing for the appointment to the judicial office, in fixing the tenure of office and making judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit. Let no plausible or delusive hope of obtaining a larger liberty, let not the example of any other state... | |
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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... 
