We can also see that, but for the prospect that important amendments would be made, specially for securing the natural rights of the people, the constitution would have been spurned with contempt, as it deserved to be.
Spooner argues that the Constitution would have been rejected if not for the promise of amendments to protect individual rights.
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It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.