Lysander Spooner: “If it do not authorize individuals to nip tyranny in the bud, it does not authorize them to cut it down when its…”

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

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

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.

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