Lysander Spooner: “It was once said, in this country, that taxation without consent was robbery.”

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…

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.

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