Lysander Spooner: “Nobody will suspect them of being influenced by any such compassion as that.”

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

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

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

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