Lysander Spooner: “If they command men to do justice, they add nothing to men's obligation to do it, or to any man's right to enforce it.”

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.