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Updated: May 31, 2025

But, if either of these principles were broken down, the other would fall with it, and for these reasons:If trial by the country were broken down, the principle of no taxation without consent would fall with it, because the government would then be able totax the people without their consent, inasmuch as the legal tribunals would be mere tools of the government, and would enforce such taxation, and punish men for resisting such taxation, as the government ordered.

Lysander Spooner - Essay on the Trial By Jury