Lysander Spooner: “These are some of the innumerable frauds by which the English people have been cheated out of the trial by jury.”

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

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.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

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