And all who are associated with you in the government--whether they be called senators, representatives, judges, executive officers, or what not--all hold their places, directly or indirectly, only by the same worthless title.
Spooner states that all government officials hold their positions by the same unjustifiable title.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
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