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Thus the legislators hold the whole power of the government in their hands, and are at the same time utterly irresponsible for the manner in which they use it.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner critiques the lack of accountability among legislators in government.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.