Lysander Spooner: “They do not profess to be anything but such villains as they really are.”

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

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

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.