For example, you have no such evidence of your right to take any man's property for the support of your government, as would be required of you, if you were to claim pay for a single day's honest labor.
Spooner highlights the lack of evidence justifying the government's right to tax individuals.
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Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.