But this leaves the government all power of determining what is justice and right, except that it shall not consider anything as justice and right so far as to carry it into execution against the goods, rights, or person of a party unless it be something which a jury have sanctioned.
This statement reflects Spooner's view on the government's discretion in determining justice.
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Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
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.
It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.