Did it not rather imply that the jury were to judge independently and fearlessly as to everything involved in the charge, and especially as to its intrinsic justice, and thereon give their decision, (unbiased by any legislation of the king,) whether the accused might be punished?
Spooner posits that juries must judge the intrinsic justice of charges independently, emphasizing their critical role in the legal process.
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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.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.