Lysander Spooner: “But these, of course, have never conveyed any real rights of property.”

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

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.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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