On the record
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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