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An Essay on the Trial by Jury

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  1. Notes

    2:55

  2. Ch 1 – The Right of Juries to Judge the Justice of Laws

    43:15

  3. Ch 2 – Part 1 – Trial by Jury Defined by Magna Carta

    53:39

  4. Ch 2 – Part 2 – Language of Magna Carta

    49:16

  5. Ch 3 – Part 1 – Additionnal Proofs of the Rights and Duties of Jurors

    41:27

  6. Ch 3 – Part 2 – Ancient Common Law Juries were Mere Courts of Conscience

    23:31

  7. Ch 3 – Part 3 – Ancient Common Law Juries were Mere Courts of Conscience

    43:59

  8. Ch 3 – Part 4 – Oaths of Jurors

    30:11

  9. Ch 3 – Part 5 – Right of Jurors to fix the Sentence

    33:31

  10. Ch 3 – Part 6 – The Coronation Oath

    25:49

  11. Ch 4 – The Rights and Duties of Juries in Civil Suits

    39:14

  12. Ch 5 – Part 1 – Objections Answered

    26:58

  13. Ch 5 – Part 2 – Objections Answered

    25:17

  14. Ch 6 – Juries of the Present Day Illegal

    43:41

  15. Ch 7 – Part 1 – Illegal Judges

    26:27

  16. Ch 7 – Part 2 – Illegal Judges

    33:38

  17. Ch 8 – Free Administration of Justice

    15:06

  18. Ch 9 – The Criminal Intent

    31:46

  19. Ch 10 – Moral Considerations for Jurors

    7:10

  20. Ch 11 – Authority of Magna Carta

    41:04

  21. Ch 12 – Limitations Imposed Upon the Majority by the Trial by Jury

    41:31

  22. Appendix

    9:16

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The power to judge a law's fairness lies at the center of Lysander Spooner's argument about trial by jury. He argues that jurors must weigh the justice of laws as well as the facts before them. His account treats the jury as a safeguard for individual liberty and draws on Magna Carta and English common law to support that position. Published in 1852, the volume addresses jury powers in both Britain and the United States.

The chapters examine jurors' oaths, civil disputes, the authority of judges, and limits on majority rule. In the discussion of property rights, Spooner tests whether juries can consistently follow different principles in civil and criminal cases.

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Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was an American lawyer, abolitionist and individualist anarchist. He challenged the government's postal monopoly with his own mail company, argued that slavery was unconstitutional, and wrote fierce essays defending natural rights and questioning the legitimacy of state authority.

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First published
1852
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
164
Language
English
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