That process has been going on for many years throughout my State. Devotion to the principle of trial by jury was so deeply imbedded in the minds of the colonists that even when the panic over the French Revolution hit America and the alien and sedition laws were passed. trial by jury was guaranteed to any citizen accused of seditious activity. Aliens. however. were subject to deportation without trial if the President judged them dangerous to the country. even as in some instances they are today. But even though the letter of jury trial was maintained. and even though Claiborne of Tennessee insisted that the jury be allowed a general verdict. as in Foxs libel law. in effect the spirit of jury trial was consistently violated. For example. in the trial of the Democrat James T.
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