Lysander Spooner: “That reason is the necessity of guarding against the tyranny of the…”

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That reason is the necessity of guarding against the tyranny of the government.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner highlights the importance of juries in preventing government tyranny through their judgment.

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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

Lysander Spooner: “That reason is the necessity of guarding against the tyranny of the government.”