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In this way, the people, at all times, hold their liberties in their own hands, and never surrender them, even for a moment, into the hands of the government.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner emphasizes that the people retain their liberties and never fully surrender them to the government.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.