Lysander Spooner: “The rule assumes, what is true, that natural law is a thing certain in itself; also that it is capable of being learned.”

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

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

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.