Lysander Spooner: “Because, in a case of justice or injustice, it is naturally impossible…”

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Because, in a case of justice or injustice, it is naturally impossible that any one man can delegate his executive right or power to another.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that no individual can transfer their moral responsibility for justice to another person.

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From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

Lysander Spooner: “Because, in a case of justice or injustice, it is naturally impossible that any one man can delegate his executive right…”