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In its desperation, it resolved to destroy men and money, without limit, and without mercy, for the preservation of its existence.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner highlights the desperation of the government, willing to destroy lives and resources to survive.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
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.