Lysander Spooner: “The meaning will be, that no person shall be disseized, &c;., except upon a lawful cause of action, found by the verdict…”

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

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

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.