Lysander Spooner: “It must adhere inflexibly to the principle of entire freedom for all honest industry, and all honest traffic.”

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…

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.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.