And as for the system being adapted to the maintenance of justice among men, it is a mystery that any human mind could ever have been visited with an insanity wild enough to originate the idea.
Spooner expresses disbelief at the idea that the political system can maintain justice.
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The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…
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.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.