Lysander Spooner: “Neither faction cared anything for human rights then, and neither of them has shown any regard for human rights since.”

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.