Lysander Spooner: “Such a contract would be an absurd and void contract, utterly destitute of all legal or moral obligation.”

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

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

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…