Taking all the statutes in the country, there probably is not one in a hundred, except the auxiliary ones just mentioned, that does not violate natural law; that does not invade some right or other.
Spooner claims that most statutes in the country violate natural law and individual rights.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?