This oath, then, is conclusive proof that his legislation was of no authority with a jury, and that they were under no obligation whatever to enforce it, unless it coincided with their own ideas of justice.
Spooner asserts that the oath taken by the king proves that juries are not obligated to enforce laws that contradict their sense of justice.
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It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.