The oaths that have been administered to jurors, in England, and which are their legal guide to their duty, all (so far as I have ascertained them) corroborate the idea that the jurors are to try all cases on their intrinsic merits, independently of any laws that they deem unjust or oppressive.
This statement emphasizes the jurors' duty to judge cases based on their merits rather than unjust laws.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
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.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.