Lysander Spooner: “If this body had had any real legislative authority, they would have constituted an aristocracy, having, in conjunction…”

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

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.