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There has, probably, never been a legal jury, nor a legal trial by jury, in a single court of the United States, since the adoption of the constitution.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “There has, probably, never been a legal jury, nor a legal trial by jury, in a single court of the United States, since…”
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Spooner asserts that since the Constitution's adoption, no legal jury has existed in U.S. courts, highlighting a systemic failure.
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In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.