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They would also protect men in forcibly resisting the collection of taxes to which they had never consented.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgThey would also protect men in forcibly resisting the collection of taxes to which they had never consented.
He asserts that juries would protect individuals from tax collection without consent.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
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.