Lysander Spooner: “Any ignorance of the law, therefore, that is unnecessary, or that arises from indifference or disregard of one's duty…”

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.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

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

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.