Lysander Spooner: “All the ancient writs, given in Glanville, for summoning jurors, indicate that the jurors judged of everything, on their…”

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

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

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

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…