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Can a more decisive or infallible condemnation of our governments be conceived of, than the absence of all courts of justice, and the absolute power of their courts of injustice?
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner argues that the lack of courts of justice is a damning indictment of government.
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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.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.