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Federalist Papers. No. 83, Alexander Hamilton
FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: MAJOR WORKS
Saturday, July 5, Wednesday, July 9, Saturday July 12, 1788
Judiciary in relation to trial by jury, interpreting written law of...
Spooner: Trial By Jury
Background of the American Civil War
In 1852, abolitionist Lysander Spooner publishes an essay arguing that private citizens serving as jurors are the final arbiters...
John G. Palfrey: On the Slave Power
Background of the Civil War
During the year 1846, historian John G. Palfrey publishes a series of papers in the Boston Whig.
It is often wisdom,...
Tocqueville, Democracy In America, Appendix R
Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831
Appendix R
The Federal Constitution has introduced the jury into the tribunals of the Union, just as the states...
Causes Which Mitigate The Tyranny Of The Majority In The US
Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831
Volume 1, Chapter 16, Causes Which Mitigate The Tyranny Of The Majority In The United States
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Samuel Adams On the Right to Trial By Jury
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Samuel Adams (1764)
And it is also certain that this Law admits of our Properties being tried, in Controversies...
The Anti-Federalist Papers No. 83: Luther Martin
The Federal Judiciary and the Issue of Trial by Jury
Luther Martin
By Luther Martin of Maryland.
. . . . in all those cases, where the...
Juries: A Double Edged Sword
Tyranny Unmasked with Steven Montgomery
A short history of the right of a jury to decide matters of law as well as fact. And the...
Madison’s Notes: The Federal Convention of 1787: August 28
Debates for 28 August 1787 on nullification, trial by jury, habeas corpus, free trade between states, paper money, ex post facto law, federal court jurisdiction
Madison's Notes: The Federal Convention of 1787: August 28
Debates for 28 August 1787 on nullification, trial by jury, habeas corpus, free trade between states, paper money, ex post facto law, federal court jurisdiction
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