Lysander Spooner: “Such a contract would be an absurd and void contract, utterly destitute of all legal or moral obligation.”

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

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

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.