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And this statute is only one example of the numberless contrivances and usurpations which have been resorted to, for the purpose of destroying the original and genuine trial by jury.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner critiques the various methods used to undermine the integrity of the trial by jury.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.