Lysander Spooner: “There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.”

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

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

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.