Saturday, January 14, 2017

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Dear Court Rooms of America,

This is how William Penn outlines the proceeding of court for his "Frame of the Government of Pennsylvania in America." Perhaps we could take a few notes. . . 
"All pleadings, processes, and records in courts shall be short, and in English, and in an ordinary and plain Character, that they may be understood, and Justice speedily administered" (35). 
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Penn, William. "Frame of the Government of Pennsylvania in America." For the Record: A Documentary History of America, vol. 1, 
              edited by David E. Shi and Holly A. Mayer, W.W. Norton and Company, 2016, 32-37. 

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