The whole object of legislation, excepting that legislation which merely makes regulations, and provides instrumentalities for carrying other laws into effect, is to overturn natural law, and substitute for it the arbitrary will of power.
Spooner critiques the purpose of legislation, arguing it undermines natural law.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.