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Or is he bound to submit to lose his life, liberty, or property, if they demand it, merely because he is the less numerous party?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Or is he bound to submit to lose his life, liberty, or property, if they demand it, merely because he is the less…”
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Spooner challenges the idea that a person must submit to the demands of a more numerous group.
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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.
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.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?