Lysander Spooner: “You evidently believe that the men who made those laws were duly authorized to make them; and that you yourself have…”

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

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

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.