Upon the whole, we cannot but admire the wise economy and admirable provision of our ancestors in settling the distribution of justice in a method so well calculated for cheapness, expedition, and ease.
Spooner praises the efficiency and effectiveness of the justice system established by ancestors.
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In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.