Lysander Spooner: “I cannot delegate to another any right to make laws--that is, laws of his own invention--and compel a third person to…”

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.

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.