Lysander Spooner: “If he desires any favors from any body, he must, I repeat, depend upon the voluntary kindness of such of his fellow men…”

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

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…

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