Lysander Spooner: “The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.”

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

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

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.

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