Lysander Spooner: “No one of these rights is any more sacred or inviolable in its nature, than are all the others.”

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

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.

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

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…