Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.
Spooner emphasizes that justice must be a shared goal among those who support the government.
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It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
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.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.