Lysander Spooner: “In England and the United States, the trial by jury is the only institution that gives the weaker party any veto upon…”

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

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

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

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