Lysander Spooner: “Who ever heard that succeeding legislatures were, on the whole, more honest than those that preceded them?”

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

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

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.