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If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. – Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury

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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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