Lysander Spooner: “The rights of every member are determined by the written compact, to which all the members have voluntarily agreed.”

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

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

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.