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It is therefore unjust to tax them, unless they are eligible to seats in a jury, with power to judge of the justice of the laws.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner claims it is unjust to tax individuals who are not eligible jurors, linking taxation to legal representation.
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They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.
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.