Lysander Spooner: “Because it is a natural impossibility that they can make any law--that is, any law of their own invention--that does not…”

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

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?

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.