Lysander Spooner: “It can neither give, nor take away, the right to enter into any contract whatever, that has that "obligation.”

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

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…

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?

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.