Lysander Spooner: “It was once said, in this country, that taxation without consent was robbery.”

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

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.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

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