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In other words, the government has usurped the authority of selecting the jurors that were to sit in judgment upon its own acts.
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Lysander Spooner
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This statement highlights the government's usurpation of the authority to select jurors, undermining impartiality.
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It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
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.
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.