If a government were to be established and supported solely by that portion of the people who lay claim to superior knowledge, there would be some consistency in their saying that the common people should not be received as jurors, with power to judge of the justice of the laws.
Spooner points out the inconsistency in excluding common people from jury duty if a government claims to be based on superior knowledge.
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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
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