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That reason is, that every right he gives up diminishes his own power of self-protection, and makes it so much more difficult for the government to protect him.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “That reason is, that every right he gives up diminishes his own power of self-protection, and makes it so much more…”
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This quote illustrates Spooner's belief that giving up rights weakens one's ability to protect oneself, contradicting the purpose of government protection.
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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.
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
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.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.