Lysander Spooner: “Legislators generally have the sense to see that legislation will not make natural law any clearer than it is.”

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

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.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.