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All unsuccessful attempts at revolution, however justifiable in themselves, are punished as treason, if the government be permitted to judge of the treason.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner notes that unsuccessful revolutions are punished as treason by the government.
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Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
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.