alex alexis toqueville rode on what tempers the tyranny of the majority. in that there was a section of the juror in which she observes the jury is a mode of the sovereignty of the people. says the institution of the jury places the real direction of society in the hands of the governed or in a portion of @@@r faith within the republican party that the institution of the jury is a problem for america. i think they are deeply, deeply wrong. i think it is as much a political institution that allows the little guy a chance as it is a judicial institution and i think any efforts to interfere with it, trespass into very, very dangerous and problematic territory for our country. and i'd like to make just one more point if i may because it touches on another article of faith that has been raised here today and that is that there are an avalanche of frivolous suits that the insurance industry pays for because it's cheaper to pay the case than it is to defend it. that implies that an entire industry, a profit motivated and rational industry is making the calculated

alex alexis toqueville rode on what tempers the tyranny of the majority.in that there was a section of the juror in which she observes the jury is a mode of the sovereignty of the people. says the institution of the jury places the real direction of society in the hands of the governed or in a portion of them. not in those who govern. he describes the system of the jury along with universal suffrage as the two equally powerful means of making the majority reign. he describes the jury as the most energetic means, the most energetic means of making the people reign. he observed that all sovereign whose have wanted to draw the source of their power from themselves and and to direct society instead of allowing it to be directed by itself have destroyed the institution of the jury or have innervated it. i know that it is an article of faith within the republican party that the institution of the jury is a problem for america. i think they are deeply, deeply wrong. i think it is as much a political institution that allows the little guy a chance as it is a judic