Lysander Spooner: “We have a population of fifty to sixty millions; and not a single court of justice, State or national!”

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

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

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…

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.