Lysander Spooner: “Any ignorance of the law, therefore, that is unnecessary, or that arises from indifference or disregard of one's duty…”

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

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

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…

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