The power itself is a frivolous one, of little or no utility; for the weighing and assaying of metals is a thing so easily done, and can be done by so many different persons, that there is certainly no necessity for its being done at all by a government.
Spooner critiques the necessity of government involvement in weighing and assaying metals for currency.
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There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.