Lysander Spooner: “Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that…”

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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.

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Lysander Spooner

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He references historical evidence from Magna Carta to support the eligibility of freemen over twenty-one as jurors.

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