Lysander Spooner: “Even murder was punishable by a fine payable to the relatives of the deceased.”

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.

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

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