Atrocious Judges

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Excerpt from Atrocious Judges: Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of OppressionHume observes, in his History of England, that among a people who lived in so simple a manner as the anglo-saxons, the judicial power is always of greater importance than the legislative. The same comparison will hold good even in communities far more advanced in civilization than the Anglo Saxons. It has indeed been well said that the great end of the complicated machinery of the existing British govern ment is to get twelve men into a jury box. It might even be laid down as a general principle that the freedom or servitude of a people will mainly depend upon the sort of administra tion of justice which they have especially of criminal justice.The whole course of British history will serve to justify this observation, since it has not been so much by the aid of mercenary soldiers, as by the assistance of lawyers and judges, that tyranny has sought to introduce itself into that country. It is in the history of the English courts, still more than in the history of the English Parliament, that we are to trace the origin and growth of those popular rights and of that idea of public liberty, propagated from England to America.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.