On the record
In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner argues that juries in the U.S. are largely illegal, paralleling issues in England.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
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