Lysander Spooner: “So that the government must keep its laws clearly within the limits of justice, if it would ask a jury to enforce them.”

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

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.