Lysander Spooner: “The judicial and executive officers are all equally guaranteed against…”

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The judicial and executive officers are all equally guaranteed against all responsibility to the people.

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Lysander Spooner

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He points out that judicial and executive officers are shielded from accountability to the public.

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Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

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.

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

Lysander Spooner: “The judicial and executive officers are all equally guaranteed against all responsibility to the people.”