Lysander Spooner: “As it is, the constitution imposes no prohibition upon the coining of money by individuals, but only by State…”

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.