Lysander Spooner: “And being everywhere and always the supreme law, it is necessarily everywhere and always the only law.”

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

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.

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 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…