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In other words, in the criminal suit, the jury would be obliged to justify the defendant in resisting a law, which, in the civil suit, they had said he was bound to submit to.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner discusses the conflicting obligations juries face in civil versus criminal cases regarding unjust laws.
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Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.