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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.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all…”
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Spooner clarifies that the jury's power to judge the law is not absolute and has limitations.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.