Lysander Spooner: “One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all…”

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

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.