Excerpt from The Security of Englishmen's Lives, or the Trust, Power and Duty of the Grand Juries of England: Explained According to the Fundamentals of the English Government, and the Declarations of the Same Made in Parliament by Many Statutes If a similar fate has not attended the jury system, (the constitutional check to the judi cial power, ) it is not because the principles on which it was founded have been more stea dily adhered to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.