Lysander Spooner: “It is a maxim of the common law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent.”

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

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.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.