Lysander Spooner: “It denies all the natural rights of the people; and is resorted to only by usurpers and tyrants, to justify their…”

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

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.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…