Lysander Spooner: “Guilt" is an intrinsic quality of actions, and can neither be created, destroyed, nor changed by legislation.”

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.