Such is the imperfection of language, and the want of technical skill in the makers of the law, that statutes often give occasion to the most perplexing and distressing doubts and discussions, arising from the ambiguity that attends them.
Spooner highlights the complexities and ambiguities often found in legal statutes.
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Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
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.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.