It is said that it would be absurd that twelve ignorant men should have power to judge of the law, while justices learned in the law should be compelledto sit by and see the law decided erroneously.
Spooner argues against the absurdity of allowing learned justices to be passive while jurors judge the law.
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Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
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.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.