On the record
Besides many other indignities, to which they were continually exposed, it appears that they were once all thrown into prison, and the sum of 66,000 marks exacted for their liberty.
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Lysander Spooner
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Editor's note · Context
Spooner recounts the severe financial extortion imposed on Jews, reflecting systemic injustice.
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It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.