Now all these things were very unnecessary and foolish, if his laws were binding upon juries; because, in that ease, he could have procured the conviction of these men in a legal manner, and thus have saved the necessity of such usurpation.
Spooner asserts that the king's laws were unnecessary if they could easily convict individuals through legal means.
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