There's more to it than that. There's the right to appeal, yes the jury can be captured, the lower courts captured, the appellate courts, the supreme courts, and even the supreme court, but even then, mob justice won't be just. Our founding father's didn't execute the judges and officials. They declared independence, not by sword, but by law. The law was enforced by sword, as law must be. They never had a problem with rule of law, they had a problem with confiscation of arms and gun powder, with paying taxes with currency that was in extreme scarcity, and with paying taxes foisted on them by outsiders.
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They may have declared independence, but they got it by fighting off the thugs of the crown.
I agree that courts and cops may look good on paper, but the facts are there are many points of friction with it.
Not least of which is some killers get impunity to continue killing people that don't have it coming.
I'd probably support something similar to what we have were the positions of power rotated in some manner rather than bestowed for life or won in clearly rigged elections.
I say rigged because there is no way to count those that don't participate and those that participate are on one side of issue, generally.
Why do local taxes pass so easily?
Because the people against them don't vote in the numbers of the people that support them.