Lysander Spooner: “A jury, therefore, insures to us what no other court does that first and indispensable requisite in a judicial tribunal…”

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.