On the record
So that practically a jury has no absolute power to take a party's goods, rights, or person.
Said by
Lysander Spooner
Source
gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “So that practically a jury has no absolute power to take a party's goods, rights, or person.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that juries do not possess absolute power over a person's rights or property.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
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.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.