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By this act of Henry the Eighth, so construed and so applied, almost all that is substantial and beneficial in a trial by jury is taken away from the subject in the colonies.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques a law that undermines the rights of individuals in the colonies regarding trial by jury.
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