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So the government must prove the guilt of the man it has arraigned.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “So the government must prove the guilt of the man it has arraigned.”
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Mann states that the government must prove guilt in a trial, reinforcing the principle of innocence until proven guilty.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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