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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: globe; some have formed colonies, others independent states; the
mother-country has maintained its monarchical constitution; many
of its offspring have founded powerful republics; but wherever
the English have been they have boasted of the privilege of trial
by jury. *c They have established it, or hastened to re-establish
it, in all their settlements. A judicial institution which
obtains the suffrages of a great people for so long a series of
ages, which is zealously renewed at every epoch of civilization,
in all the climates of the earth and under every form of human
government, cannot be contrary to the spirit of justice. *d
[Footnote c: All the English and American jurists are unanimous
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