Lysander Spooner: “But this pretence, it will be seen, utterly discards the idea that contracts have any natural obligation.”

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

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…

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.