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How did zenger trial help expand the colonists rights ?
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How did zenger trial help expand the colonists rights ?

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the zenger trial helped expand the colonists rights by claiming that people had the right to speak the truth .
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It represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important cleft in the relationship between the American colonies/colonists and the mother country.
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