Lysander Spooner: “Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or…”

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

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.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.