All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few, or no persons, who could hire capital, and do business for themselves, would consent to labor for wages for another.
He envisions a future where individuals can operate their own businesses, leading to the dismantling of large establishments that rely on wage labor.
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The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
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