On the record
It can do nothing except what all have consented that it may do.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “It can do nothing except what all have consented that it may do.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that government actions are limited to those consented to by all individuals.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?