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But the free administration of justice is not only indispensable to the maintenance of right between man and man; it would also promote simplicity and stability in the laws.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner states that fair justice is essential for maintaining rights and simplifying laws.
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Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.