On the record
If such is the real character of the constitution, can any further proof be required of the necessity that it be buried out of sight at once and forever?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “If such is the real character of the constitution, can any further proof be required of the necessity that it be buried…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner argues for the immediate abolition of the constitution if it embodies such detrimental characteristics.
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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.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?