An Essay on the Trial by Jury
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- 1852
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Notes
2:55 -
Ch 1 – The Right of Juries to Judge the Justice of Laws
43:15 -
Ch 2 – Part 1 – Trial by Jury Defined by Magna Carta
53:39 -
Ch 2 – Part 2 – Language of Magna Carta
49:16 -
Ch 3 – Part 1 – Additionnal Proofs of the Rights and Duties of Jurors
41:27 -
Ch 3 – Part 2 – Ancient Common Law Juries were Mere Courts of Conscience
23:31 -
Ch 3 – Part 3 – Ancient Common Law Juries were Mere Courts of Conscience
43:59 -
Ch 3 – Part 4 – Oaths of Jurors
30:11 -
Ch 3 – Part 5 – Right of Jurors to fix the Sentence
33:31 -
Ch 3 – Part 6 – The Coronation Oath
25:49 -
Ch 4 – The Rights and Duties of Juries in Civil Suits
39:14 -
Ch 5 – Part 1 – Objections Answered
26:58 -
Ch 5 – Part 2 – Objections Answered
25:17 -
Ch 6 – Juries of the Present Day Illegal
43:41 -
Ch 7 – Part 1 – Illegal Judges
26:27 -
Ch 7 – Part 2 – Illegal Judges
33:38 -
Ch 8 – Free Administration of Justice
15:06 -
Ch 9 – The Criminal Intent
31:46 -
Ch 10 – Moral Considerations for Jurors
7:10 -
Ch 11 – Authority of Magna Carta
41:04 -
Ch 12 – Limitations Imposed Upon the Majority by the Trial by Jury
41:31 -
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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- Author
- Lysander Spooner
- First published
- 1852
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 164
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Political Philosophy
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