Lysander Spooner: “Its whole object is simply to deter everybody--except those specially licensed--from performing this innocent, useful…”

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

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

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.