Lysander Spooner: “The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.”

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

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

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.