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The phraseology of the amendment is full of significance: “The right of trial by jury shall be preserved.” Not created, but preserved.
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Mann points out the significance of the language in the seventh amendment regarding the preservation of jury rights.
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This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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