Lysander Spooner: “Magna Carta, therefore, made it impossible that absolute power could…”

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Magna Carta, therefore, made it impossible that absolute power could ever be practically established in England, in the hands of the king.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that Magna Carta prevents the establishment of absolute power by the king in England.

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Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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.

Lysander Spooner: “Magna Carta, therefore, made it impossible that absolute power could ever be practically established in England, in the…”