Lysander Spooner: “If the government can select the jurors, it will, of course, select…”

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If the government can select the jurors, it will, of course, select those whom it supposes will be favorable to its enactments.

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Lysander Spooner

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This quote suggests that if the government can choose jurors, it will favor those who support its laws.

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It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

Lysander Spooner: “If the government can select the jurors, it will, of course, select those whom it supposes will be favorable to its…”