Lysander Spooner: “In England and the United States, the trial by jury is the only…”

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In England and the United States, the trial by jury is the only institution that gives the weaker party any veto upon the power of the stronger.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner identifies the trial by jury as the only institution that allows the weaker party to have a veto.

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

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

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

Lysander Spooner: “In England and the United States, the trial by jury is the only institution that gives the weaker party any veto upon…”