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No system of law that was ever devised could be so entirely intelligible and certain to the minds of the people at large as this.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “No system of law that was ever devised could be so entirely intelligible and certain to the minds of the people at large…”
Editor's note · Context
He asserts that no legal system can be as clear and understandable to the public as the jury system.
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They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.