If the government can take a man's money without his consent, there is no limit to the additional tyranny it may practise upon him; for, with his money, it can hire soldiers to stand over him, keep him in subjection, plunder him at discretion, and kill him if he resists.
He warns that if the government can take money without consent, it can impose further tyranny.
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One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.