As jurors we are more powerful than the judge. In the jury room we are kings and queens. One lone juror is more powerful than the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court combined. The trial, or petit, jury is the last bastion of protection against tyranny, and the grand jury is supposed to be the front line, guarding the innocent from the devastating cost of defending against false indictment, as well as bringing the guilty to judgment. Government, intoxicated by power, cannot be expected to restrain itself.
Juries are the ultimate guardian against the necessity for armed revolt.
Justice and liberty can prevail only when jurors become fully aware of their authority. It was that words can be recognized without the letters being sounded out. He concluded that reading should be taught as if words were graphic pictures. Anyone not discovering on his own the secret of phonics was doomed to a very limited reading vocabulary. All this played right into the hands of John Dewey and others, who early in this century had fallen in love with the Soviet experiment.