To enforce any other law, to the extent of taking a man's goods, rights, or person, would be making some of the parties to the association accomplices in what they regard as acts of injustice.
He warns against enforcing laws that some view as unjust, as it implicates them in wrongdoing.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).