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Was a more absolute, irresponsible government than that ever invented?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Was a more absolute, irresponsible government than that ever invented?”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner questions the legitimacy of a government that operates without accountability, calling it absolute and irresponsible.
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In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
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.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?