An ancient right, the Founders considered the jury trial to be not just essential for liberty, but possibly the most important check on government power. As Thomas Jefferson put it: “I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”

John Adams, John Dickinson, Patrick Henry - and many others - agreed.

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Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury [1852]
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spooner-an-essay-on-the-trial-by-jury-1852

Trial By Jury: A Jewel of Freedom
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2019/09/09/trial-by-jury-a-jewel-of-freedom/

The Constitutional Right to Trial by Jury
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2016/03/12/the-constitutional-right-to-trial-by-jury/