Lysander Spooner: “All contracts for such a purpose are absurd and void contracts, that no man can rightfully be compelled to fulfil.”

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

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.