Lysander Spooner: “For example, it is a power to declare imperatively that a man's property, liberty, or life, shall not be taken from him…”

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.

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.

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

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