And consistency with their own principles requires that all governments, founded on the will of the majority, should recognize this plea as a sufficient justification for all crimes whatsoever.
He argues that governments based on majority rule must accept the justification of crimes against minorities.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
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.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.