In short, government in practice would be brought to the necessity of a strict adherence to natural law, and natural justice, instead of being, as it now is, a great battle, in which avarice and ambition are constantly fighting for and obtaining advantages over the natural rights of mankind.
Spooner advocates for governance based on natural law and justice rather than the interests of the powerful.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
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.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.