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And it is only since all the real power of juries has been destroyed, and they have become mere tools in the hands of legislators and judges, that they have become favorites with them.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner reflects on the decline of jury power and its implications for justice.
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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.