Lysander Spooner: “The government does not even recognize a man's natural right to his own life.”

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

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.

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?