The popular ignorance of law is attributable mainly to the innovations that have been made upon natural law by legislation; whereby our system has become an incongruous mixture of natural and statute law, with no uniform principle pervading it.
This quote addresses how legislative changes have complicated the understanding of natural law.
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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.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.