Lysander Spooner: “They cannot magisterially impose their opinions upon the jury, and make them forsake the direct words of their oath, to…”

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.