They being presumed to be competent judges of what kind of legislation makes for their safety, and what for their injury, it must be presumed that any legislation, which they object to enforcing, tends to their oppression, and not to their security.
Spooner posits that the weaker party's judgment is crucial in determining the fairness of legislation.
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What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
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.