Lysander Spooner: “Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.”

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

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

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…