Lysander Spooner: “Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.”

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.