It is an absurdity to say that a man has any rights of his own, if other men, whether calling themselves a government, or by any other name, have the right to take them from him, without his consent.
Here, Spooner critiques the legitimacy of government authority over individual rights.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.