Lysander Spooner: “Discussions, which do not interfere with the enforcement of their laws, are but idle wind to them.”

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

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

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.