This mistaken idea was, in some measure, excusable in that day, when reason and experience had not demonstrated, to their minds, the utter incompatibility of all lawmaking whatsoever with men's natural rights.
Spooner argues that past misconceptions about lawmaking's compatibility with natural rights were understandable but flawed.
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One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.