Lysander Spooner: “A jury, therefore, insures to us what no other court does that first and indispensable requisite in a judicial tribunal…”

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.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

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.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.