Lysander Spooner: “The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.”

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…