Lysander Spooner: “This affords a wide field for tyranny; and, if a jury cannot here intervene, the oppressed are utterly defenceless.”

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.