This example of Coke tends to show how utterly blind, or how utterly corrupt, English judges, (dependent upon the crown and the legislature), have been in regard to everything in Magna Carta, that went to secure the liberties of the people, or limit the power of the government.
Spooner criticizes the corruption and blindness of English judges regarding the Magna Carta's protections.
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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.