Lysander Spooner: “The king could never be informed of his rights, but through the medium of the people.”

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

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

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.