It is because, and solely because, they, like the judges under all other irresponsible and tyrannical governments, are part and parcel of a conspiracy for robbing and enslaving the great body of the people, to gratify the luxury and pride of a few.
Spooner argues that judges are complicit in a conspiracy to oppress the populace for the benefit of a few.
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They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.