Lysander Spooner: “Such an absurd contract would, in reality, be no legal contract at all.”

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

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