For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
Spooner contrasts the honesty of villains with the injustice of courts and lawmakers.
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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
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.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.