Lysander Spooner: “It is by this arbitrary power over contracts, that the monopoly of money is sustained.”

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

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

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.

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