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This minority would disregard, trample upon, or resist, the execution of such legislation, and then throw themselves upon a jury of the whole people for justification and protection.
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Lysander Spooner
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Editor's note · Context
Spooner discusses the potential for the minority to resist unjust laws and seek protection through a jury, emphasizing the role of juries.
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One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.