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Nick Szabo·2026-02-17 03:17
RT Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK)Before this, they decided if you were guilty by making you hold a red-hot iron bar.If you burned, God had spoken.You were guilty.They called it trial by ordeal. It lasted centuries.Then in 1215, on a riverbank in England, they wrote something down that changed the world forever.No free man shall be imprisoned except by the lawful judgement of his peers.Not the king. Not the church. Not a lord. Twelve ordinary people.In 1670, a judge locked up a jury for refusing to convict. Sta ...