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This mode of appointment would guard against collusion and selection; and juries so appointed would be likely to be a fair epitome of "the country.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner argues for a fair representation in jury appointments to ensure justice.
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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.
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.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.