If we ever should have courts of justice, it is easy to see what will become of statute books, supreme courts, trial by battle, and all the other machinery of fraud and tyranny, by which the world is now ruled.
Spooner predicts that true courts of justice would dismantle current systems of fraud and tyranny.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.