All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
Spooner suggests that constitutional limits serve primarily to inform the government of where resistance will occur.
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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.
The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
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