Lysander Spooner: “This absurd, contemptible, and detestable trick has had a long lease of life, and has been used as a cover for some of…”

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.