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This is the rule on which the trial by jury is based.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This is the rule on which the trial by jury is based.”
Editor's note · Context
This statement highlights the foundational principle underlying the trial by jury system.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.