Lysander Spooner: “It appears from Blackstone that, even at this day, neither in civil nor criminal cases, are jurors in England sworn to…”

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.