Lysander Spooner: “So they hold that in such an exigency as they describe, congress had the right to commit any crime against private…”

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.