To a proud and impatient nobility it seemed little and unsuiting to give or accept compositions for the injuries they committed or received; and their vassals adopting their resentment and passions, war and bloodshed alone could terminate their quarrels.
Spooner reflects on the nobility's disdain for compromise and their propensity for violence.
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What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.