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But the government, in fixing the qualifications of jurors, has adhered to the term freeholder after that term has ceased to express the thing originally designated by it.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner criticizes the government's continued use of the term 'freeholder' despite its changed meaning in relation to juror qualifications.
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In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.