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Without this right, there is no fraud that cannot be practised upon the most honest man, and no guilt that cannot be proved against the most innocent one.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Without this right, there is no fraud that cannot be practised upon the most honest man, and no guilt that cannot be…”
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Mann warns that without the right to cross-examine, any innocent person could be falsely accused.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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