Zenger’s Case in the United States
Zenger’s Case (1735)
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled ZENGER’S CASE (1735) Had John Peter Zenger, the printer of the New-York Weekly Journal, attacked the provincial assembly of New York instead of its hated royal governor, he would have been summarily convicted at the bar of the house, jailed, and forgotten by posterity. But he was tried by a jury,
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