Lysander Spooner: “It requires, for example, more capacity to make a reasonable contract in the purchase of a large estate, than in the…”

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

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.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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