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In allowing them this liberty, it does not at all recognize their right to it, but only consults its own interests.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “In allowing them this liberty, it does not at all recognize their right to it, but only consults its own interests.”
Editor's note · Context
This statement critiques the government's motivations for allowing individual liberties.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
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.
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.