On the record
For all practical puposes of the present day, therefore, it may be asserted that Magna Carta allows no trial whatever but trial by jury.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “For all practical puposes of the present day, therefore, it may be asserted that Magna Carta allows no trial whatever…”
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Spooner asserts that Magna Carta effectively allows only trial by jury in contemporary practice.
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