By Katrina Hall. 112 Penn St. L. Rev. 885.
While justice is contemporarily depicted by a blindfolded goddess carrying scales and holding a sword, earlier versions of this image portray the woman without a blindfold, which was added only within the last four hundred years. The blindfold represents a safeguard against “information that could bias or corrupt her.” The scales signify evenhandedness; while the sword represents an uncompromising character . . . [keep reading]
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