Lysander Spooner: “Everybody must be presumed eligible, until the contrary be shown.”

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

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

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

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.