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This absurd, contemptible, and detestable trick has had a long lease of life, and has been used as a cover for some of the greatest of crimes.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgThis absurd, contemptible, and detestable trick has had a long lease of life, and has been used as a cover for some of the greatest of crimes.
Spooner condemns the long-standing legal trick that justifies state crimes against individuals.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.