This pretence, that the law is a part of the contract, is a mere trick to cheat people out of their natural right to make their own contracts; and to compel them to make only such contracts as the lawmakers choose to permit them to make.
Spooner criticizes the notion that law is inherently part of a contract, viewing it as a deception.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.