Government, therefore, must be kept within these limits, or it is no longer a voluntary association of all who contribute to its support, but a mere tyrant established by a part over the rest.
Spooner warns that government must operate within limits to avoid tyranny.
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Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.