The following statement goes to confirm the same idea, that jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
Spooner emphasizes the jurors' right and duty to judge according to their own consciences rather than the court's dictates.
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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
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.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.