Lysander Spooner: “It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.”

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

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

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

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…