Lysander Spooner: “All unsuccessful attempts at revolution, however justifiable in themselves, are punished as treason, if the government…”

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

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

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.