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Excerpt from The Lord's Idea Concerning the Use of Money, Contrasted With the Devil's Idea Concerning the Use of Money
There is still another civil law which has been given to mankind by the Maker of all things, but not included in the five laws just mentioned, for the reason that this law has been accepted by some nations and placed upon their statute books. This law is expressed in these words: Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed. To which was annexed a proviso or condition, to wit that no one should suffer the death penalty unless his guilt was clearly established by the testimony of two witnesses. But the introduction of the lawyer and the jury of twelve on the trial of the murderer, connected with the privilege allowed to one of the twelve, the least minority, to nullify the verdict of eleven, the greatest majority, have rendered murder trials in this country a mere farce. In fact, it may be said of this entire system of settling disputes between man and man, that the shrewdest lawyer and the longest purse combined as a rule, get what is called justice.
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