Lysander Spooner: “Conclusive proof that the legislation of the king was of little or no authority, is found in the fact that the kings…”

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.