And consistency with their own principles requires that all governments, founded on the will of the majority, should recognize this plea as a sufficient justification for all crimes whatsoever.
He argues that governments based on majority rule must accept the justification of crimes against minorities.
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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.
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
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