[Verse 1]
The early on quite celebrated
Mostly unincorporated
Access to a jury in a
Federal civil case
[Verse 2]
Made it easy to do business for
The planting class in days of yore
Whose enterprises-they felt-were
Excised in excess ways
[Chorus]
What are rights within a nation built by slaves?
Where mass expropriation is the order of the day?
The framers kept their vision on the dream that they were living
And so made grievous elision of their contradicting ways
[Verse 3]
But through the nineteenth century
This right was claimed increasingly
By people who'd been pointedly
Excluded from the law
[Verse 4]
And though most juristic members were
White male landholding lenders
Access haltingly extended
As its use began to fall
The early on quite celebrated
Mostly unincorporated
Access to a jury in a
Federal civil case
[Verse 2]
Made it easy to do business for
The planting class in days of yore
Whose enterprises-they felt-were
Excised in excess ways
[Chorus]
What are rights within a nation built by slaves?
Where mass expropriation is the order of the day?
The framers kept their vision on the dream that they were living
And so made grievous elision of their contradicting ways
[Verse 3]
But through the nineteenth century
This right was claimed increasingly
By people who'd been pointedly
Excluded from the law
[Verse 4]
And though most juristic members were
White male landholding lenders
Access haltingly extended
As its use began to fall
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