Lysander Spooner: “Their privileges and their duties were closely conjoined; most frequently, the statutes themselves were only affirmances…”

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

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…

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

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?