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It is therefore unjust to tax them, unless they are eligible to seats in a jury, with power to judge of the justice of the laws.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner claims it is unjust to tax individuals who are not eligible jurors, linking taxation to legal representation.
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And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
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.