Lysander Spooner: “No system of law that was ever devised could be so entirely…”

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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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He asserts that no legal system can be as clear and understandable to the public as the jury system.

More from Lysander Spooner

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

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

Lysander Spooner: “No system of law that was ever devised could be so entirely intelligible and certain to the minds of the people at large…”