They can, for example, prohibit all discussion of the rightfulness of their authority; forbid the use of the suffrage; prevent the election of any successors; disarm, plunder, imprison, and even kill all who refuse submission.
Spooner lists the extreme measures a government can take against dissenters.
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Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
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.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.