The majority are still at liberty to refuse the connection, and to seek their own happiness in their own way, except that they cannot be gratified in their desire to become absolute masters of the minority.
Spooner acknowledges the majority's freedom to pursue their happiness while respecting minority rights.
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Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
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.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?