If an Englishman or a Frenchman were to be tried here for murder, how would the whole world deride the suggestion that he should not have a jury trial because he is a foreigner,--because he is not one of the “people,” and so not a party to the constitution!
Mann uses a hypothetical scenario to illustrate the absurdity of denying jury trials based on nationality.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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