Lysander Spooner: “It cannot, like coin, be removed, concealed, or carried out of the country.”

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

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.

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…