It was as easy to make justices of Jeffreys and Scroggs, as of any other material; and to have prohibited all the king's officers, except his justices, from presiding in criminal trials, would therefore have been mere fool's play.
Spooner suggests that the ease of creating corrupt justices undermines the integrity of criminal trials.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.