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This government had been imposed, by a few property holders, upon a people too poor, too scattered, and many of them too ignorant, to resist.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner argues that the government was imposed on a vulnerable population by a small group of property holders.
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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.
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.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.