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@ -96,30 +96,30 @@ By what force, fraud, and conspiracy, on the part of kings, nobles, and
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England, it is designed to show more fully in the next volume, if it
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should be necessary.
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[Footnote 118: Trial by the country, and no taxation without consent,
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mutually sustain each other, and can be sustained only by each other,
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for these reasons: 1. Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man
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who had never agreed to pay it. They would also protect men in forcibly
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resisting the collection of taxes to which they had never consented.
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Otherwise the jurors would authorize the government to tax themselves
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without their consent,—a thing which no jury would be likely to do. In
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these two ways, then, trial by the country would sustain the principle
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of no taxation without consent. 2. On the other hand, the principle of
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no taxation without consent would sustain the trial by the country,
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because men in general would not consent to be taxed for the support of
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a government under which trial by the country was not secured. Thus
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these two principles mutually sustain each other.
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But, if either of these principles were broken down, the other would
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fall with it, and for these reasons: 1. If trial by the country were
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broken down, the principle of no taxation without consent would fall
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with it, because the government would then be _able_ to tax the people
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without their consent, inasmuch as the legal tribunals would be mere
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tools of the government, and would enforce such taxation, and punish men
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for resisting such taxation, as the government ordered. 2. On the other
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hand, if the principle of no taxation without consent were broken down,
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trial by the country would fall with it, because the government, if it
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could tax people without their consent, would, of course, take enough of
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their money to enable it to employ all the force necessary for
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sustaining its own tribunals, (in the place of juries,) and carrying
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their decrees into execution.]
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[^118]: Trial by the country, and no taxation without consent,
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mutually sustain each other, and can be sustained only by each other,
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for these reasons: 1. Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man
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who had never agreed to pay it. They would also protect men in forcibly
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resisting the collection of taxes to which they had never consented.
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Otherwise the jurors would authorize the government to tax themselves
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without their consent,—a thing which no jury would be likely to do. In
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these two ways, then, trial by the country would sustain the principle
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of no taxation without consent. 2. On the other hand, the principle of
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no taxation without consent would sustain the trial by the country,
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because men in general would not consent to be taxed for the support of
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a government under which trial by the country was not secured. Thus
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these two principles mutually sustain each other.
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But, if either of these principles were broken down, the other would
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fall with it, and for these reasons: 1. If trial by the country were
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broken down, the principle of no taxation without consent would fall
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with it, because the government would then be _able_ to tax the people
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without their consent, inasmuch as the legal tribunals would be mere
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tools of the government, and would enforce such taxation, and punish men
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for resisting such taxation, as the government ordered. 2. On the other
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hand, if the principle of no taxation without consent were broken down,
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trial by the country would fall with it, because the government, if it
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could tax people without their consent, would, of course, take enough of
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their money to enable it to employ all the force necessary for
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sustaining its own tribunals, (in the place of juries,) and carrying
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their decrees into execution.
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