Lysander Spooner: “Now, inasmuch as no man can delegate, or impart, his own judgment or conscience to another, it is naturally impossible…”

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…

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

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.