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It is now incorporated into all our state constitutions, as a fundamental right; and the constitution of the United States would have been justly obnoxious to the most conclusive objection, if it had not recognized and confirmed it in the most solemn terms.”--3 Com. 652, 3.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann asserts that the right to a jury trial is fundamental and recognized in state and federal constitutions.

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