Lysander Spooner Quote

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.


An Essay on the Trial by Jury (ed. 1852)


If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute,...

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute,...

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute,...

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute,...