To secure this right of the people to judge of their own liberties against the government, the jurors are taken, (or must be, to make them lawful jurors,} from the body of the people, by lot, or by some process that precludes any previos knowledge, choice, or selection of them, on the part of the government.
Spooner discusses the necessity of jurors being selected from the populace to ensure fairness in trials.
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