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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