diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index cf4dc9f..23921c6 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -chapters := 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 appendix +chapters := note 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 appendix edited_chapters := $(foreach chapter,$(chapters),edited/$(chapter).markdown) book.pdf: $(edited_chapters) title.txt Makefile diff --git a/edited/note.markdown b/edited/note.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5ef74d --- /dev/null +++ b/edited/note.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +\chapter*{NOTE} + +This volume, it is presumed by the author, gives what will generally be +considered satisfactory evidence,—though not all the evidence,—of what +the Common Law trial by jury really is. In a future volume, if it should +be called for, it is designed to corroborate the grounds taken in this; +give a concise view of the English constitution; show the +unconstitutional character of the existing government in England, and +the unconstitutional means by which the trial by jury has been broken +down in practice; prove that, neither in England nor the United States, +have legislatures ever been invested by the people with any authority to +impair the powers, change the oaths, or (with few exceptions) abridge +the jurisdiction, of juries, or select jurors on any other than Common +Law principles; and, consequently, that, in both countries, legislation +is still constitutionally subordinate to the discretion and consciences +of Common Law juries, in all cases, both civil and criminal, in which +juries sit. The same volume will probably also discuss several political +and legal questions, which will naturally assume importance if the trial +by jury should be reëstablished. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/original/note.markdown b/original/note.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5993b5a --- /dev/null +++ b/original/note.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +\chapter*{NOTE} + +This volume, it is presumed by the author, gives what will generally be +considered satisfactory evidence,--though not all the evidence,--of what +the Common Law trial by jury really is. In a future volume, if it should +be called for, it is designed to corroborate the grounds taken in this; +give a concise view of the English constitution; show the +unconstitutional character of the existing government in England, and +the unconstitutional means by which the trial by jury has been broken +down in practice; prove that, neither in England nor the United States, +have legislatures ever been invested by the people with any authority to +impair the powers, change the oaths, or (with few exceptions) abridge +the jurisdiction, of juries, or select jurors on any other than Common +Law principles; and, consequently, that, in both countries, legislation +is still constitutionally subordinate to the discretion and consciences +of Common Law juries, in all cases, both civil and criminal, in which +juries sit. The same volume will probably also discuss several political +and legal questions, which will naturally assume importance if the trial +by jury should be reëstablished. \ No newline at end of file