Historic Works

 

Founders

• Address to the People of Great Britain (1774)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine (1789)

Fugitive Slave Act Era

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• The Fugitive Slave Law—speech by Frederick Douglass to the National Free Soil Convention at Pittsburgh, 11 August 1852

Lysander Spooner

• Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster (1850)
• Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875)
• An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)—in progress
  • Chapter I. The Right of Juries to Judge of the Justice of Laws
    • Section 1
    • Section 2
  • Chapter II. The Right of Trial by Jury, As Defined by Magna Carta
    • Section 1. The History of Magna Carta
    • Section 2. The Language of Magna Carta
  • Chapter III. Additional Proofs of the Rights and Duties of Jurors
    • Section 1. Weakness of the Regal Authority
    • Section 2. The Ancient Common Law Juries Were Mere Courts of Conscience
    • Section 3. The Oaths of Jurors
    • Section 4. The Right of Jurors to Fix the Sentence
    • Section 5. The Oaths of Judges
    • Section 6. The Coronation Oath
  • Chapter IV. The Rights and Duties of Jurors in Civil Suits
  • Chapter V. Objections Answered
  • Chapter VI. Juries of the Present Day Illegal
  • Chapter VII. Illegal Judges
  • Chapter VIII. The Free Administration of Justice
  • Chapter IX. The Criminal Intent
  • Chapter X. Moral Considerations for Jurors
  • Chapter XI. Authority of Magna Carta
  • Chapter XII. Limitations Imposed Upon the Majority by the Trial by Jury
  • Appendix—Taxation

Susan B. Anthony

• Address of Susan B. Anthony (1873)

Other Historic Works

• The Twelve Men, G.K. Chesterton, 1909
• What Say the Reeds at Runnymede?, Rudyard Kipling, 1911