On the record
All the other free British subjects are excluded; whereas, at common law, all such subjects are eligible to sit in juries, whether they be freeholders or not.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner highlights the exclusion of non-freeholders from juries, contrasting it with common law eligibility.
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