Project Gutenberg 2010-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 73 Spooner, Lysander 1808 1887 An Essay on the Trial by Jury Produced by Susan Goble, Curtis Weyant, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "An Essay on the Trial by Jury" by Lysander Spooner is a legal and philosophical treatise written in the mid-19th century. The work explores the fundamental rights and responsibilities of juries, emphasizing their power to judge not only the facts of a case but also the justice of the laws themselves. Spooner argues that this right is essential to protect individual liberties from governmental oppression, framing the jury system as a bulwark against tyranny. At the start of the essay, Spooner establishes the historical context of the trial by jury, tracing its roots back to the Magna Carta and articulating how this mechanism is intended to empower the people's judgment over the government's authority. He insists that for a jury to function as a "palladium of liberty," it must be allowed to hold laws as invalid if deemed unjust or oppressive. Spooner warns against the dangers of a juror's ability to be influenced by governmental edicts and argues that the integrity of the jury is paramount to maintaining the freedoms of individuals against the actions of the state. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Jury -- United States Jury -- Great Britain K Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - British Browsing: Law & Criminology 654464 654473 2024-09-14T05:21:11.060833 2023-09-14T10:10:41.896360 text/html text/html 660576 2021-01-06T19:40:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 213026 2021-01-06T19:40:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 279350 2024-09-14T05:21:20.870815 application/epub+zip 289370 2024-09-14T05:21:13.050821 application/epub+zip 289370 2024-09-14T05:21:11.908878 application/epub+zip 537450 2024-09-14T05:21:26.415787 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 502817 2024-09-14T05:21:19.945789 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 502889 2022-09-15T07:19:06.716210 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 591325 591200 2024-09-14T05:21:09.619847 2023-09-14T10:10:40.355339 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 591008 2021-01-06T19:40:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 200478 2021-01-06T19:40:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 591096 2021-01-06T19:40:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 200428 2021-01-06T19:40:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20402 2024-09-14T05:21:26.563763 application/rdf+xml 12559 2024-09-14T05:21:12.302836 image/jpeg 3066 2024-09-14T05:21:12.104839 image/jpeg 267880 2024-09-14T05:21:11.111880 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia