Lysander Spooner: “Indeed, I do not know that it has ever been doubted that, at common…”

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Indeed, I do not know that it has ever been doubted that, at common law, all the freeholders were eligible as jurors.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner states that it has historically been accepted that all freeholders were eligible to serve as jurors under common law.

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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

Lysander Spooner: “Indeed, I do not know that it has ever been doubted that, at common law, all the freeholders were eligible as jurors.”