Lysander Spooner: “The trial by jury ever has been, and I trust ever will be, looked upon as the glory of the English law...”

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

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.

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

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?