Lysander Spooner: “The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.”

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

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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