Lysander Spooner: “PROBABLY no political compact between king and people was ever entered into in a manner to settle more authoritatively…”

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

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.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.