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Still further; this bill derides the trial by jury, secured by the constitution.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Still further; this bill derides the trial by jury, secured by the constitution.”
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Mann critiques a bill that undermines the right to a jury trial, highlighting its constitutional implications.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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