Lysander Spooner: “Legislators generally have the sense to see that legislation will not make natural law any clearer than it is.”

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

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

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.