Unless the weaker party have a veto, either upon the making, or the enforcement of laws, they have no power whatever in the government, and can of course have no liberties except such as the stronger party, in their arbitrary discretion, see fit to permit them to enjoy.
Spooner insists that without a veto, the weaker party has no power or liberties in government.
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There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.