Lysander Spooner: “Whenever the natural law is sufficiently certain to all men's minds to justify its being enacted, it is sufficiently…”

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

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

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.