Lysander Spooner: “And do you think they will never get their eyes open to see what blockheads, or impostors, you and your lawmakers are?”

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

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.