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They simply refuse their assent to such laws of the majority as they do not approve.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “They simply refuse their assent to such laws of the majority as they do not approve.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner explains that minorities can reject laws they disagree with without imposing authority over the majority.
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And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
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.
The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.
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.