Lysander Spooner: “In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.”

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.