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Yet that idea has been an entire delusion, unless the jury have had the right to judge of the justice of the laws they were called on to enforce.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Yet that idea has been an entire delusion, unless the jury have had the right to judge of the justice of the laws they…”
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Spooner argues that the traditional belief in the jury's power is misguided without the right to judge laws' justice.
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