Lysander Spooner: “Society prohibits the use of private individual coercion, and gives in its place a more safe and more certain remedy.”

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

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

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.

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.