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Unless they judge on this point, they do nothing to protect their liberties against the oppressions that are capable of being practiced under cover of a corrupt exposition of the laws.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Unless they judge on this point, they do nothing to protect their liberties against the oppressions that are capable of…”
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Spooner asserts that juries must actively judge the laws to protect individual liberties from government corruption.
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