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In other words, the government has usurped the authority of selecting the jurors that were to sit in judgment upon its own acts.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “In other words, the government has usurped the authority of selecting the jurors that were to sit in judgment upon its…”
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This statement highlights the government's usurpation of the authority to select jurors, undermining impartiality.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.