Lysander Spooner: “It had been carried on, for some seventy years, by a mere cabal of irresponsible men, called lawmakers.”

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

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.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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