Lysander Spooner: “So that practically a jury has no absolute power to take a party's goods, rights, or person.”

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.