Lysander Spooner: “Of the Great Charter, the trial by jury is the vital part, and the…”

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Of the Great Charter, the trial by jury is the vital part, and the only part that places the liberties of the people in their own keeping.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner emphasizes the importance of the trial by jury as a safeguard for individual liberties.

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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

Lysander Spooner: “Of the Great Charter, the trial by jury is the vital part, and the only part that places the liberties of the people in…”