But they advocate it solely because they put into their own pockets a very large portion certainly--probably three-fourths, I should judge--of the increased prices their commodities are thus made to bring in the market.
Spooner claims that employers benefit financially from increased prices due to protectionist policies.
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In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.