The oaths that have been administered to jurors, in England, and which are their legal guide to their duty, all (so far as I have ascertained them) corroborate the idea that the jurors are to try all cases on their intrinsic merits, independently of any laws that they deem unjust or oppressive.
This statement emphasizes the jurors' duty to judge cases based on their merits rather than unjust laws.
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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
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.
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