Lysander Spooner: “These are the bases on which the trial by jury places the property, liberty, and rights of every individual.”

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.