Lysander Spooner: “And why have they not told us how false, absurd, and tyrannical are all these lawmaking governments?”

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.