Lysander Spooner: “The king could never be informed of his rights, but through the medium of the people.”

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.