SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, an 18th-century jurist who wrote a famous four-volume history of English law, described a man’s right to trial by his peers as “the principal bulwark of our liberties”.

威廉布雷克斯顿爵士，这位写下著名的四卷英国法律历史的18世纪法学家，把公民接受其他普通公民对其审判的权利视为“我们自由最重要的堡垒”。

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