Unless he found them nearly unanimous in their interpretation and approbation of it, he would conclude that juries would not unite in enforcing it, and that it would consequently be a dead letter.
Spooner explains that if a law is not nearly unanimously interpreted and approved by the community, it is likely to be ignored by juries.
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