Lysander Spooner: “We might nearly as well have no courts of justice, as to throw them open, as we do, for such flagitious uses.”

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

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.

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.

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…