Lysander Spooner: “On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.”

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

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

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.