Lysander Spooner: “It is punishing a man as a criminal, for simply trying to save his property from robbers.”

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

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