If the trial by jury were reestablished, the Common Law principle of taxation would be reestablished with it; for it is not to be supposed that juries would enforce a tax upon an individual which he had never agreed to pay.
He believes that reestablishing trial by jury would also restore the principle of consent in taxation.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.