They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.
Spooner points out the hypocrisy of relying on courts to validate government actions.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.