Lysander Spooner: “Did folly, falsehood, absurdity, assumption, or criminality ever reach a higher point than that?”

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

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.