Lysander Spooner: “He may acquit or pardon, notwithstanding their sentence or judgment; but he cannot punish, except according to their…”

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

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 whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…