The Declaration of Independence’s list of grievances includes the suppression of the right to a jury trial. Learn how the jury right gradually arose and developed over the centuries in England, and how it became a keystone to justice and liberty. Highlights include the trials of Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania William Penn in England and printer John Peter Zenger in New York. Learn how Patrick Henry's appeal to the jury in the Parsons Cause solidified the jury in American lore and launched Henry’s career. Discover how England's oppression of the colonies consistently deprived the colonists of the right to a jury and why suppressing it is a key threat to unalienable rights. 

The grievances also include shipping criminal defendants overseas to face hostile trials. With the expansion of the Vice Admiralty Courts and similar mechanisms, criminals defendants were uprooted from their communities and shipped to face justice before tribunals ready to convict. Understand how that too threatened justice and unalienable rights. 

Discover how the Quebec Act governing Canada abolished representative government, the common law of England, and jury trials. Explore why the Quebec Act was considered a betrayal of the colonists and perceived to be a tremendous threat to the the First Principles of the rule of law, unalienable rights, limited government, and the Social Compact. The Intolerable Acts continue their rampage against the American colonies and trampling of American rights.

Continue our deep dive of the American Revolution & the Declaration of Independence and its grievances. Further your learning about the First Principles of the rule of law, unalienable rights, limited government, the Social Compact, equality, and the right to alter or abolish oppressive government. Produced by Patriot Week - visit PatriotWeek.org, Judge Warren’s book at www.AmericasSurvivalGuide.com, and the new daily video series, Save Our Republic! at Patriot Week’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdq2k1-j0xlV2VIp8MRLmOg?user=patriotweek#g/u

Also check out the upcoming Patrick Henry Awards at PatriotWeek.org featuring ABC's Bob Woodruff, a re-enactment of Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! speech, an Abigail Adams re-enactor, and more!