Lysander Spooner: “You cannot claim to be ignorant of what crimes such a government will commit.”

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

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

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

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.