Lysander Spooner: “If that be the true principle of the trial by jury, the trial is utterly worthless as a security to liberty.”

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

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

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.