Lysander Spooner: “Was a more thorough scheme of national villainy ever invented?”

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

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.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.