Lysander Spooner: “You evidently believe that the men who made those laws were duly authorized to make them; and that you yourself have…”

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

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

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.