Lysander Spooner: “A trial in one of these courts of injustice is a trial by battle, almost, if not quite, as really as was a trial by…”

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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 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…

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…