Lysander Spooner: “The trial by jury ever has been, and I trust ever will be, looked upon as the glory of the English law...”

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

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

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

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?