Lysander Spooner: “And yet our government says a man must give up all his rights, in order that it may protect him.”

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

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.

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