On the record
It is manifest, therefore, that the jury must judge of and try the whole case, and every part and parcel of the case, free of any dictation or authority on the part of the government.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner argues that juries must have complete autonomy to judge cases without government interference.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.