Lysander Spooner: “It is punishing a man as a criminal, for simply trying to save his property from robbers.”

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

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…

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

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.