All the freeholders were required to attend the courts, that they might serve as jurors and witnesses, and do any other service that could legally be required of them; and their attendance was paid for by the state.
Spooner notes the obligation of freeholders to serve in courts, highlighting civic duty.
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In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.