Lysander Spooner: “They simply refuse their assent to such laws of the majority as they do not approve.”

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

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

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 nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.