Yes, they lie under still another condemnation, to wit, that their courts are not only courts of injustice, but they are also secret tribunals; adjudicating all causes according to the secret instructions of their masters, the lawmakers, and their authorized interpreters, their supreme courts.
Spooner condemns the secretive nature of tribunals that operate outside public scrutiny.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.