Lysander Spooner: “If a government has the right to prohibit, or qualify, any one of these contracts, it has the same right to prohibit, or…”

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

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.