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They can rarely gain either fame, power, or money, by giving erroneous decisions.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgThey can rarely gain either fame, power, or money, by giving erroneous decisions.
Spooner notes that jurors have little incentive to make erroneous decisions due to their temporary roles.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
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.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.