On the record
Justice Baldwin, one of the judges of the supreme court of the United States, held that it was not in the power of Congress to take away the right of trial by jury, secured by the seventh amendment, either,--“1.
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Mann cites Justice Baldwin's ruling that Congress cannot remove the right to a jury trial as guaranteed by the seventh amendment.
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