For the first seventy years of the government, one portion of the lawmakers would be satisfied with nothing less than permission to rob one-sixth, or one-seventh, of the whole population, not only of their labor, but even of their right to their own persons.
Spooner discusses the exploitation of a significant portion of the population by lawmakers.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?