Lysander Spooner: “It denies all the natural rights of the people; and is resorted to only by usurpers and tyrants, to justify their…”

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

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

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

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.