Lysander Spooner: “It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.”

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…

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?