Lysander Spooner: “And when a government resorts to such measures to save its life, we need no further proof that its time to die has come.”

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.

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

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

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