Lysander Spooner: “How is it possible that juries can do anything to protect the liberties of the people against the government, if they…”

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

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.