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Alexander Hamilton, acting as defense counsel in a seditious libel case, said: "That in criminal cases, nevertheless, the court are the constitutional advisors of the jury in matter of law; who may compromise their conscience by lightly or rashly disregarding that advice, but may still more compromise their consciences by following it, if exercising their judgments with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong." 7 Hamilton's Works, (ed. 1886), 336-373.
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