And no tribunal that attempts to try this issue can have any moral right to declare a man guilty, for an act that is intrinsically innocent, at the bidding of a legislature, any more than at the bidding of anybody else.
He argues that no tribunal has the moral right to declare someone guilty of an innocent act, regardless of legislative authority.
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From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as 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.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.