Lysander Spooner: “From the moment when the crown became accustomed to the 'Inquest,' a restraint was imposed upon every branch of the…”

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.

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

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.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.