The authority to judge what are the powers of the government, and what the liberties of the people, must necessarily be vested in one or the other of the parties themselves the government, or the people; because there is no third party to whom it can be entrusted.
Spooner discusses the necessity of determining who holds the power to define government authority and individual liberties.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.