Lysander Spooner: “They are sworn to try the whole case at issue between the king and the…”

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They are sworn to try the whole case at issue between the king and the prisoner, and that includes the law as well as the fact.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner emphasizes the jury's duty to consider both the law and the facts in a case.

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