Lysander Spooner: “No despot was ever more entirely irresponsible than are republican legislators during the period for which they are…”

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.

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

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

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?