Lysander Spooner: “These are some of the innumerable frauds by which the English people…”

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These are some of the innumerable frauds by which the English people have been cheated out of the trial by jury.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner lists the various ways the English people have been deprived of their right to a jury trial.

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Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

Lysander Spooner: “These are some of the innumerable frauds by which the English people have been cheated out of the trial by jury.”