Lysander Spooner: “They have no rule to go by but their passions and wishes." 8 Term Rep., 428, note.”

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.