Lysander Spooner: “Why are so many of them so ambitious to become lawmakers and judges themselves?”

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

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

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.