Taxing them for the support of the laws, on the assumption that they are in favor of the laws, and at the same time refusing them the right, as jurors, to judge of the justice of the laws, on the assumption that they are opposed to the laws, are flat contradictions.
He highlights the contradiction of taxing individuals while denying them the right to judge the laws' justice.
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In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.