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At his trial, John Peter Zenger's defense argued that he should be acquitted on the grounds that:libel laws do not apply to elected officials.English law permitted freedom of the press in England and therefore it should be extended to the colonies.England did not have the authority to operate admiralty courts in the colonies and therefore the case should be thrown out.he had printed the truth and therefore it could not be libel.
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