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Or have they, too, been perjured tyrants and traitors?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Or have they, too, been perjured tyrants and traitors?”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner raises the possibility that judges may also be guilty of betrayal if they have knowingly ignored the ninth amendment.
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That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
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.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.