Lysander Spooner: “It certainly is not to be determined by any arbitrary legislation, that shall deprive any one of his natural right to…”

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

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.