Not one of all the ten millions of voters, who helped to place you in power, would have dared to do so, if he had known that he was to be held personally responsible, before any just tribunal, for the acts of those for whom he voted.
Spooner highlights the fear of personal accountability that prevents voters from acting freely.
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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 was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.