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Yet that idea has been an entire delusion, unless the jury have had the right to judge of the justice of the laws they were called on to enforce.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Yet that idea has been an entire delusion, unless the jury have had the right to judge of the justice of the laws they…”
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Spooner argues that the traditional belief in the jury's power is misguided without the right to judge laws' justice.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.