Lysander Spooner: “And we acknowledge that, according to our pledge, you have now a right to require of us that we coerce a fulfilment of…”

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

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

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