It was necessary that a court should be erected, of supreme authority, where the disputes of the great should be decided, where the disagreeing sentiments of judges should be reconciled, and where protection should be given to the people against their fraud and injustice.
Spooner emphasizes the need for a supreme court to ensure justice and resolve disputes among the powerful.
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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.
In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.