Lysander Spooner: “He might pardon, or he might acquit on grounds of law, not withstanding the sentence; but he could not punish beyond the…”

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

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.

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.