When the king's justices were known to be so corrupt and servile that the people would not even trust them to sit alone, in jury trials, in civil actions, how preposterous is it to suppose that they would not only suffer them to sit, but to sit alone, in criminal ones.
Spooner critiques the reliability of justices in historical jury trials, emphasizing the need for oversight.
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