Lysander Spooner: “For all practical puposes of the present day, therefore, it may be…”

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For all practical puposes of the present day, therefore, it may be asserted that Magna Carta allows no trial whatever but trial by jury.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that Magna Carta effectively allows only trial by jury in contemporary practice.

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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

Lysander Spooner: “For all practical puposes of the present day, therefore, it may be asserted that Magna Carta allows no trial whatever…”