Lysander Spooner: “No man can sell it, or transfer it to another; or give to another any right of arbitrary dominion over him.”

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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

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