Lysander Spooner: “This was one reason, doubtless, why Magna Carta made juries, in civil suits, paramount to all instructions of the king's…”

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…

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

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.