For the first seventy years of the government, one portion of the lawmakers would be satisfied with nothing less than permission to rob one-sixth, or one-seventh, of the whole population, not only of their labor, but even of their right to their own persons.
Spooner discusses the exploitation of a significant portion of the population by lawmakers.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.