How has Atticus's character influenced Jem in Chapter 22 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?

After Atticus suckered Jem into admitting that the
children were playing their Boo Radley game outside on the street, Jem wasn't so sure
that he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps.

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"I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but I ain't
so sure now!"  (Chapter
5)

After the
jury's verdict in the Tom Robinson trial, Jem is pretty sure that he would like to
outlaw all juries, too. It was clear to Jem, who had seen the entire trial, that his
father had proven that Tom was an innocent man. However, the jury didn't think so, and
Jem was livid.

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"I always thought Maycomb folks were the best
folks in the world, least that's what they seemed
like."

Jem had it in his head
that Atticus was all alone in his community, but Miss Maudie explained that there were
plenty of people who felt just like Atticus. Judge Taylor had handpicked Atticus to
defend Tom, she told Jem, instead of the normal court-appointed lawyer. Maudie told Jem
how she had waited and waited, realizing that only Atticus could have kept "a jury out
so long in a case like that." She told him that some
men

     "...
were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
    
"We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus
to go for us."

Jem seemed to
be thinking that Maycomb needed more people like Atticus--perhaps another Finch
lawyer "to make up for heathen
juries."

"Soon's I get
grown--"