Such tribunals, consisting of judges, numerous enough, and perfectly competent to settle justly probably ninety-nine one-hundredths of all the controversies that arise among men, could be obtained in every village.
He proposes that local tribunals with sufficient judges could effectively resolve most disputes.
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In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
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