Lysander Spooner: “Why is it that they have all gone on sanctioning and enforcing all the nakedly iniquitous laws, by which men's natural…”

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

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.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

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