The reason why these courts are so intensely servile and corrupt, is, that they are not only parts of, but the veriest creatures of, the very governments whose oppressions they are thus seeking to uphold.
Spooner critiques the integrity of courts that serve oppressive governments.
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It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
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.