No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside of the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world. - Robert H. Jackson

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No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside of the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world.

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About Robert H. Jackson

Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was United States Solicitor General (1938–1940), United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He is the only person in United States history to have held all three of those offices. He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.

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Native Name: Robert Jackson
Alternative Names: Robert Houghwout Jackson

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When we went to school we were told that we were governed by laws, not men. As a result of that, many people think there is no need to pay any attention to judicial candidates because judges merely apply the law by some mathematical formula and a good judge and a bad judge all apply the same kind of law. The fact is that the most important part of a judge's work is the exercise of judgment and that the law in a court is never better than the common sense judgment of the judge that is presiding.

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